Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage (PTBD): A radiologically guided procedure in which a catheter is percutaneously inserted into the bile ducts to relieve obstruction.

The management of malignant biliary obstruction is a critical challenge in modern gastroenterology, where effective drainage is essential for palliation and prolongation of life.

Although choledochoduodenostomy was widely performed for choledocholithiasis in the 1960s and 1970s, Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy is currently the preferred biliary-enteric anastomosis for benign and ...

Introduction: Roux-en-Y Hepatico-jejunostomy is the standard technique of biliary reconstruction after excision of choledochal cyst. Here the author describes a new surgical technique of biliary ...

Background: Biliary obstruction impairs liver function although the pathophysiological mechanism is incompletely understood. Aims: The aim of this study was to examine serial changes in liver ...

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) is currently the treatment of choice in patients with biliary stent occlusion after the failure of ERCP or those with hilar strictures . Percutaneous ...

A novel magnetic compression anastomosis method saved a 45-year-old Indian man from bile duct complications after ...

Eisai’s drug has been submitted for approval on the back of a single-arm phase 2 trial (Study 201) that enrolled patients in Japan and China with FGFR2 gene fusion-positive unresectable biliary ...

Regarding the patient's biliary anatomy, there is no record of congenital biliary abnormalities, such as biliary atresia, and the patient has not previously undergone a Kasai procedure. Two years ...