Bile duct disorders can lead to serious complications if left untreated, but early diagnosis and proper management can prevent long-term damage, a doctor states. READ ON to find out more.

Background and aim: Malignant hilar obstruction usually presents in advanced-stage disease with a poor prognosis. Effective biliary drainage is essential for the beginning of palliative chemotherapy.

These guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) in the management of portal hypertension have ... The guidelines are new and have been produced in collaboration with ...

4 Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr J W Jukema, Department of Cardiology C5-P, Leiden ...

2 China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China Background The outcome of deploying balloon-mounted stents for symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic ... in which ...

A ureteral stent is a flexible plastic tube for insertion into the ureter to treat or prevent blockages that impede urine flow from the kidney to the bladder, such as kidney stones. Once the ...

Biliary sphincterotomy alone, placement of a biliary stent, and nasobiliary drainage are available approaches. In our series, we used nasobiliary drainage, transpapillary stenting, and a ...

One of the imitations of our study is that 54% of the patients received a biliary stent due to jaundice, and it remains unclear whether hyperbilirubinemia influences the gut metabolism of tryptophan, ...

Background Venous sinus stenting (VSS) is an increasingly performed procedure for the treatment of ... On admission to the angiosuite, patients were continuously monitored by the anesthesia team and ...

The stroke and neurological death that occurred within 72 h after the procedure as well as long-term clinical and imaging outcomes were analyzed. Results: Overall, 130 patients with 130 ICAS treated ...