Biliary stent migration represents a significant clinical challenge, occurring when stents inserted to relieve biliary obstructions dislodge from their intended positions. This phenomenon can lead ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...

Less severe complications included stent migration (5%), pain (2%), biliary obstruction (1%) and stent obstruction (17%). Survival data were available for 458 patients, among whom the mean ...

Lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) have been recently developed to improve treatment outcomes in the endoscopic management of pancreatic fluid collections (PFC), particularly in walled-off necrosis ...

It is not known why the biliary system fails to develop normally. In babies with biliary atresia, bile flow from the liver to the gallbladder is blocked. This can lead to liver damage and cirrhosis of ...

FGFR2 gene fusion is observed in approximately 14% of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, which accounts for 15%-30% of all biliary tract cancers, according to Eisai, but drug options are limited.

FDA approves Ipsen's Iqirvo for primary biliary cholangitis, ending a 10-year hiatus in new therapies for the rare cholestatic liver disease.

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 ...

For the study, the AI system was deployed in real-time across the 12-hospital Northwestern Medicine network, where nearly 24,000 radiology reports were analyzed over a five-month period in 2024.