Medically reviewed by Renee Nilan, MD Bilirubin is a substance found in bile, a fluid produced in the liver that helps break ...

Your liver takes the bilirubin from your blood and changes its chemical makeup so that most of it is passed through your poop as bile. If your bilirubin levels are higher than normal, it's a sign ...

Bile is made of cholesterol, bile salts, and water. It gets its color from bilirubin, which is formed when your blood cells break down.‌ Bile and pancreatic ducts are a network of tubes ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MDMedically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Bile duct cancer, also known as ...

or direct bilirubin. This allows it to mix with bile and exit the body through the stool and urine. The liver makes bile, which the gallbladder then stores. During food intake, the gallbladder ...

A bile duct obstruction can lead to bile accumulating in the liver and a buildup of bilirubin in the blood. Symptoms a person may experience can vary depending on the underlying cause of a bile ...

Effect of Intravenous Administration of Hydrocortisone on Total Bilirubin Output of Bile Collected in Patients with the T Tube in the Common Duct. Analysis of variance of the data on total ...

Therefore, chromatography of serum did not permit the interpretation of the presence of bilirubin diglucuronide. Because of this, bile was studied chromatographically. It was reasoned that if bile ...

Normally, the liver processes bilirubin and excretes it in bile. However, when this process is disrupted, bilirubin can accumulate in the blood and deposit in tissues, including the sclera of the ...

Blockade of the bile duct is caused by the presence of a yellowish-green chemical substance called bilirubin in the liver. This bilirubin then turns back into the bloodstream, body tissue ...