Patients with acute cholecystitis may have a history of attacks of biliary colic or they may have been asymptomatic until the presenting episode. |
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For biliary duct cancers, p53 gene mutation is an important contributor to carcinogenesis. |
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Her biliary tree is dilated with intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary dilatation, and the common bile duct measured 11 mm. |
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The pathogenesis probably involves a combination of biliary stasis, chemical inflammation and ischemia. |
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Such interactions are currently being used for laser assisted shock-wave lithotripsy for calculi in the biliary tree. |
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The passage of a gallstone down the bile duct into the duodenum is very painful, and is known as biliary colic. |
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Findings consistent with a partial occlusion of the common bile duct include delayed biliary to bowel transit. |
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Damage to the vasculature of the biliary tree can also induce significant bile duct damage. |
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Motor dysfunction involving the gall-bladder and biliary tract may play a role in nonulcer dyspepsia. |
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The body is usually able to get rid of it easily unless there is something wrong with your liver or biliary system. |
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Once an episode of biliary colic has occurred, there is a high risk of repeated pain attacks. |
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Abdominal pain is the most common presenting symptom in patients with pancreatic or biliary tract cancers. |
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In primary biliary cirrhosis the bile ducts in the liver are attacked by the body's own immune system. |
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The conclusion is made even stronger if the nature of the abdominal pain suggests that the liver, biliary tract, or pancreas is the source. |
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Effect of estrogen plus progestin on risk for biliary tract surgery in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease. |
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Little is known regarding their expression in biliary tract and pancreatic carcinomas. |
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The cause of obstruction was common bile duct calculi in 26 patients and biliary malignancy in 30 patients. |
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Pain below the right rib cage, called biliary colic, is usually the first symptom. |
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The ductal involvement is frequently patchy, in a pattern similar to the bile duct damage seen in primary biliary cirrhosis. |
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In fasting, the motor functions of the stomach, small intestine and biliary tract exhibit a regular periodicity. |
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This imaging study also excluded biliary obstruction, pyaemic liver abscess, and tumour as causes of his jaundice. |
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The nuclear medicine physician should be aware of certain imaging pitfalls when trying to establish the diagnosis of biliary atresia. |
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About one third of patients with gallstones develop biliary colic or other complications. |
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Patients with symptomatic gallstones are more likely to develop biliary complications. |
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Delayed diagnosis of acute cholecystitis can lead to gangrenous cholecystitis, gallbladder perforation, and biliary peritonitis. |
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We have recently identified and purified a new NTPDase member that is strongly expressed in the biliary canaliculi of hepatocytes. |
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The duodenum is often involved in the diseases of its neighbours, in particular the pancreas and the biliary tract. |
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So at this point, yes, I'm accepting there were three documented cases of cholangiocarcinoma and three cases of biliary tract cancer. |
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This patient presented with advanced biliary disease which is associated with jaundice and death. |
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So my presumption at that point was that it was at least biliary tract cancer, if not cholangiocarcinoma. |
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In rats, biliary excretion and in dogs, urinary excretion is the predominant route of elimination. |
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Both biliary and urinary excretion contribute substantially to the elimination of losartan and its metabolites. |
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It also stimulates liver and biliary functions and is often suggested as a digestive tonic for seniors. |
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The drug is eliminated by biliary and renal excretion, mostly in the form of active metabolite idarubicinol. |
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Color Doppler imaging may be used to differentiate biliary sludge, which is avascular, from a hypoechoic mass, which would show flow. |
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In stage IV, fibrosis is prominent in biliary cirrhosis and a marked increase in hepatic copper is found. |
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It is therefore difficult to agree which symptoms are specifically biliary and therefore will be cured by cholecystectomy. |
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In this scenario, early cholecystectomy would avoid significant complications such as biliary colic, cholangitis, cholecystitis, and pancreatitis from the residual stones. |
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The three other cases were biliary tract cancers, presenting exactly like bile duct cancers. |
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These actions have a favorable effect on the atonia of the gallbladder and on biliary dyskinesia. |
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His warfarin treatment was terminated in anticipation of a biliary stent. |
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The liver should be examined for abnormal echotexture caused by hepatic fibrosis and biliary ectasia, which is often associated with autosomal recessive disease. |
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In the case of pain arising in the pancreas or biliary tract this can be attributed to the fact that the release of enteric hormones in response to foods is slow. |
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Ultrasonography is the best method for identifying gallbladder stones and for confirming extrahepatic biliary obstruction as dilated bile ducts are visible. |
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A trigger or cofactor role of ROCEPHIN-related biliary precipitation can not be ruled out. |
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It is in the medium incidence group of countries for cancers of the stomach, oesophagus, liver, biliary organs, cervix and endometrium. |
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Stomatal and tonic, the turkey rhubarb promotes the recovery of biliary dysfunction. |
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Carcinomas that arise from the biliary duct epithelium are rare. |
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Identifying the tissue of origin for tumors arising in and around the biliary tract is particularly problematic far the pathologist, due in part to the anatomy of the region. |
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The Foundation is of vital importance to Sarah and her family because her youngest daughter, Carol, was diagnosed last year with a rare liver disease called biliary atresia. |
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In the future, we will also focus our attention on less frequent disease states such as pouchitis, or biliary atresia. |
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Freya Stratford had been seriously ill with the bile duct condition biliary atresia and doctors gave her just weeks to live unless a donor organ was found. |
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When eating and drinking in general aggravate the pain, the pain is nearly always arising from the stomach, pancreas, biliary tract, small intestine, or colon. |
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Without treatment, biliary atresia can progress to liver failure and death within the first two years of life. |
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Air within the bile ducts is seen as densely echogenic lines with shadowing along the course of the biliary system. |
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Finally, gas within the biliary radicles often appears as linear echogenic foci. |
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Universal screening in Taiwan using the stool card has lead to earlier diagnosis and better outcome in infants with biliary atresia. |
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Biliary atresia is a rare disease characterized by biliary obstruction which occurs during the perinatal period. |
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Carcinoma of the gallbladder is the most common cancer of the biliary tract, and most tumors occur in the gallbladder fundus. |
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The patient described in this report had every major complication of Caroli disease, including recurrent cholangitis, liver abscess, biliary lithiasis, and cholangiocarcinoma. |
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Opioids can cause an increase in biliary tract pressure as a result of spasm in the sphincter of Oddi. |
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Further workup showed no evidence of biliary tract disease, hemochromatosis or other metabolic liver disease. |
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The fumitory is used in spasmodic disorders associated with gallbladder, biliary tract and gastrointestinal tract. |
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Opioid analgesics including hydromorphone should also be used with caution in patients about to undergo surgery of the biliary tract, since it may cause spasm of the sphincter of Oddi. |
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Gastrointestinal: dysphagia, anorexia, taste alterations, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dyspepsia, eructation, flatulence, hiccups, gastritis, increased appetite, biliary spasm, ileus and stomatitis. |
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It is useful in cases of polyps, warts, hypertension, liver chronic congestion, exagered biliary secretion and congestive headache after a heavy meal. |
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Pneumobilia is associated with biliary-enteric fistula, incompetent sphincter of Oddi, and emphysematous cholecystitis, and is commonly seen following biliary bypass operations. |
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Since biliary malignancies often affect the bile ducts through obstruction, the most common finding is an obstructed, dilated bile duct. |
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The detection of bilirubinuria indicates pathologic conditions such as hepatitis, cirrhosis and biliary obstruction. |
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Most patients presented with risk factors for biliary stasis and biliary sludge, e.g. preceding major therapy, severe illness and total parenteral nutrition. |
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Cholecystography, X ray of the gallbladder and biliary channels, following the administration of a radiopaque dye, one of the techniques of diagnostic imaging. |
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With rupture into the biliary tree the contents of the cyst may become echogenic with or without posterior acoustic enhancement with a wall defect communicating with a biliary radical. |
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If CT scanning shows unresectable disease, consideration should be given to performing laparoscopic gastroenterostomy and endoscopic biliary stenting. |
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An in vitro study has highlighted the effectiveness of probiotics, and notably lactobacillus acidophilus LA5 and Bifidobacterium BB12, in reducing cholesterol and biliary salts. |
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Double-blind controlled studies demonstrated thalidomide's efficacy as an antipruritic agent in patients with uremic pruritus, primary biliary cirrhosis, and prurigo nodularis. |
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These are perforated by small channels, called canaliculi, that are the terminal outposts of the biliary system, receiving bile from the hepatocyte. |
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As well as biliary atresia, there are many other causes of conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia. |
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Biliary dyskinesia, obscure functional disorder related in some way to the workings of the biliary tract, the structures that serve to secrete, transport, and store bile. |
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Elsewhere it has been stated that biliary dyskinesia occurs most often in elderly women whose gallbladders have been removed but have been found to contain no gallstones. |
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During the luminal phase, dietary carbohydrates, proteins and fats are hydrolysed and solubilized, depending largely on pancreatic and biliary secretions. |
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Although biliary secretion and intestinal absorption of lidocaine hydrochloride metabolites have been reported in rats, there is no evidence of biliary secretion in man. |
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Emerging issues in pediatric health technology: A brief look at human milk banks, the increasing cost of nitric oxide, biliary atresia, sudden arrhythmia death, and febrile seizure control. |
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Our first daughter was born and appeared perfectly healthy, but we soon learned that there was a small defect called biliary atresia and in her case, it was complete biliary atresia. |
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The liver and biliary system produce bile and transport it to the small intestine, where it breaks up fats and other components of diet, and aids the digestion and absorption of nutrients. |
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Sealing of anastomoses in biliary tract reconstruction. |
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The biliary tract begins with the appearance of two large ducts, the right and left hepatic ducts, at the porta hepatis, a groove that separates two lobes on the right side of the liver. |
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Mutation of ATP7B also disrupts normal biliary excretion of copper. |
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The absence of bile salts from the intestine, which occurs in jaundice due to obstruction of the biliary tract, severely impairs vitamin K absorption and blood clotting, with risk of hemorrhage. |
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Artichoke, milk thistle and dandelion, which have draining virtues, act in synergy to stimulate biliary secretion and thus promote good digestion after overeating. |
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Choledocholithiasis, the presence of a gallstone in the common bile duct, is a troublesome component of biliary tract disease. |
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Before proceeding to do so, however, it is advisable for me to make a few prefatory remarks on the clinology of biliary concretions. |
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In addition to urinary and biliary excretion, as to blood concentration after oral administration, the complexed absorbability of I was shown. |
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Zonula occludens-1, occludin, and E-cadherin protein expression in biliary tract cancers. |
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In the liver, laminin is normally found around the vessels and biliary ducts, where basement membranes are identified. |
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The gallbladder remnant should be dissected off the liver and the obliterated common biliary tract divided distally. |
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Obstructive jaundice in patients with pancreatitis without associated biliary tract disease. |
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One of the main components of the cell junction proteins, is expressed in the biliary tract epithelium. |
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Risk factors associated with ICC, according to multivariate models, include biliary tract disease, cirrhosis, diabetes, and smoking. |
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Abdominal ultrasound showed no abnormal size of her liver nor any abnormalities of the biliary canaliculi. |
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The nonvascular stent market also includes ureteral, biliary and pancreatic, esophageal, and bronchial and tracheal stents. |
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Focusing on liver and biliary disease, this book is part of a set of three books on practical gastroenterology and hepatology. |
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Because children with biliary atresia have usually had prior abdominal surgery, operative blood loss and the risk of enterotomies are higher. |
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These tumors, located in the hepatic duct bifurcation, are treated by excising the extrahepatic biliary tree, with or without lymph nodes. |
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The device must also resist initial bacterial attachment and ingrowth which can adversely affect the removal of biliary obstructions. |
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Extended dissection of the porta hepatis and creation of an intussuscepted ileocaecal conduit for biliary atresia. |
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Neanderthal are the variants in genes that affect the risk of several diseases, including lupus, biliary cirrhosis, Crohn's disease, and type 2 diabetes. |
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In the hepatobiliary system adenomyoma is rare outside the fundus of gallbladder but can arise throughout the entire biliary tree including papilla of Vater. |
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The Yap study concluded was that a low gallbladder ejection fraction was predictive of success in patients undergoing cholecystectomy for acalculous biliary pain. |
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Among the parents attending Saturday's event was Vanessa Harris from St Mellons, whose twoyear-old daughter Ava was born with the rare liver disease, biliary atresia. |
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In the follow-up CT images, cholangiectasis improved markedly after biliary tract reconstruction, with declines in serum total bilirubin and direct bilirubin. |
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A 1-month 3-week-old infant with a history of neonatal jaundice, cholestasis, and acholia is admitted to our hospital to rule out biliary atresia and further treatment. |
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Can we be certain of the diagnosis of acute cholecystis as a yes or no decision, having already dismissed possible biliary dilation or a renal stone? |
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Key functional, hepatocyte-specific, morphological features such as biliary canaliculi were maintained in the cells over this extended time period. |
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Nonmalignant causes include biliary tract obstruction, cholangitis, inflammatory bowel disease, acute or chronic pancreatitis, cirrhosis, and cystic fibrosis. |
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These stones form in the gallbladder, but may pass into the bile ducts where they too cause excruciating pain called biliary colic, which is felt under the ribs. |
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A wide spectrum of neoplastic and nonneoplastic conditions of the biliary tract, mimicking cholangiocarcinoma, adds to the complexity of management. |
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Katherine, who was born with the rare liver disease, biliary atresia, died last January, aged just 17, whilst waiting for her third liver transplant. |
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