Since liver disease has no noticeable symptoms in the early stages, the best thing you can do is proactively get tested. “It ...

Biliary tract disease describes any disease that affects the biliary tract the gall bladder, bile ducts and accompanying structures. Examples include primary sclerosing cholangitis, secondary ...

“I got an ultrasound, and it showed a solid mass.” Follow-up tests revealed Towle had bile duct cancer, also called cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer that forms on the network of tubes that ...

Extra bile is stored in the gallbladder, which is linked to the bile ducts inside the liver. Disease anywhere along the bile ducts or nearby organs can result in bile duct obstruction and the ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

Cholangiocarcinoma is classically described as an irregular narrowing of the bile duct with shouldered scalloped margins. The stricture usually causes a high-grade or complete obstruction with ...

Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, is a malignant tumour of either the bile ducts within the liver (intrahepatic), or those leading from the liver to the small intestine (extrahepatic).

GSK’s linerixibat has shown promising results in a late-stage trial of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) patients with ...

Overview of PBC PBC is a chronic autoimmune disease in which inflammation of the liver's bile ducts gradually leads them to break down, with the subsequent build-up of bile then damaging the liver.