At this location, the tumor produces a localized stricture of the biliary ducts, giving rise to its descriptive terms: focal stenosis or infiltrating stenosis. Cross-sectional MR imaging and MRCP ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a progressive scarring of the liver's bile ducts. According to current estimates, between 5 and 16 in every 100,000 ...

Livdelzi (seladelpar) is a medicine that can treat primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) by reducing the amount of bile in your body. It does this by signaling the body to stop making bile acid.

A B.C. principal has been suspended after giving permission to a school employee to restrain a student with duct tape. Renee Dawn MacCormack was an elementary school principal in the southeast ...

Doctors in the UK are hoping to transform the lives of people with deadly bile duct cancer. A new study – which has shown promising early results – matches the patient’s tumour to one or ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...

A new clinical trial, sponsored by UCL and UCLH, aims to extend survival for some patients with cancer in the biliary tract by treating them with therapies specifically tailored to the genetic profile ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Immunotherapy's limited effectiveness in liver cancer is linked to bile acids impairing T cell function. Specific bile acids, like LCA, hinder T cells, while ...

The Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) successfully performed a transhepatic stent-assisted portal vein aneurysm coil embolization, ...