Your Bile Ducts Are What You Eat: A Rare Etiology of Cholangitis Presidential Poster: 176Chun, SoohwanLessne, Adam C.Ho, SammyOfficial journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG
Your doctor may also be able to do some procedures, such as removing gallstones from the bile duct, while doing the ERCP. What are bile and pancreatic ducts? Your bile and pancreatic ducts are what help the fluids in your digestive system go where they should. Your liver makes bile, a ...
GERD.This is a different condition from bile reflux, although the symptoms are very similar. Bile may be mixed in with the stomach acid if you suffer from this condition. In fact, medical professionals suspect that bile contributes significantly to GERD. Barrett's esophagus.This is a serious h...
Less common causes are certain medicines, an injury to the abdomen, some procedures, and infections. High levels of triglycerides (fats) and calcium may also cause pancreatitis.What are the signs and symptoms of pancreatitis?Severe burning, stabbing, or aching pain that starts in the top of ...
Digestive medicine is a general term for various types of medicine that are used to address health issues related to the...
In acute suppurative cholangitis, dilated bile ducts filled with echogenic purulent material are observed on ultrasound; dense biliary contents are seen on CT.10 Biliary contents will appear low signal relative to liver on T2-weighted MRI and intermediate signal on T1-weighted MRI.15 A uni- or ...
Researchers in Hong Kong discover dilated common bile ducts in ketamine users suggesting that the liver is also affected (10) and the bladder, ureters and kidney show invasion of mononuclear white cells in surrounding tissues. Lose of nerve fibers in the muscles of the bladder are also revealed...
There are cases where it strikes quickly but it is more common when cancerous tumors manifest after years of specific habits. Good examples of this are smoking, exposure to radiation (i.e. from cell phones), and overexposure to ultraviolet rays, which result in lung cancer, brain cancer, an...
Please forgive my rambling, I am a biology geek. Although it does gross me out to imaging small bugs growing inside a person's body. ByTesty— On Jun 22, 2011 Reading this article, I just cannot help but think how fortunate we are in the United States to have relatively clean drinking...
Once the scores are figured, they’re added up, and your liver disease is put in one of three classes: A, B, or C. Child-Pugh Score Class A 5-6 points Your disease is mild. Surgery should be safe for you. The one-year survival rate for class A patients is 100%. Child-Pugh Sc...