Bile duct inflammation and scarring, known as cholangiopathies, can disrupt bile flow, leading to liver damage and potentially liver failure.

In Medicare beneficiaries, rates of bile duct injury were consistently higher with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy than with ...

Detailed information regarding the type of surgery as well as laboratory parameters at the initial diagnosis of bile duct injury are shown in Table 2. Bile leakages and biliary strictures were ...

Bile duct cancer is rare. Cancer that starts in the ducts outside the liver is called extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer that starts in the ducts inside the liver is called intrahepatic ...

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a significant concern in clinical practice, arising from medications, herbs, and dietary ...

The most frequently described causes of SSC are longstanding biliary obstruction, surgical trauma to the bile duct and ischemic injury to the biliary tree in liver allografts. SSC may also follow ...

To treat bile duct cancer, our doctors may give radiation alone or in combination with chemotherapy or other treatments. The kind of radiation we recommend depends on the type of bile duct cancer, the ...

You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. If you receive chemotherapy after surgery to destroy and cancer cells that may remain, it ...