Inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts—also known as cholangiopathies—can stop the bile from flowing, a vital fluid that helps digest fats. When bile can’t move through these ducts ...

What Is Metastatic Bile Duct Cancer and Its Causes? Bile duct cancer – also called cholangiocarcinoma – is a rare condition. When you have cholangiocarcinoma, cancer cells grow in your bile ...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to define the differential diagnostic markers of benign and malignant bile duct strictures without demonstrable mass on ultrasonography (US ...

A second opinion, which I recommend for everyone, confirmed cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer with dismal survival rates and limited treatment options. This was the day that ...

Michelle Black, 50, from Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, received the joyous news that she had overcome a rare bile duct cancer in November. However, her world was shattered five days before ...

In severe cases, a liver transplant may be needed. Biliary cirrhosis is an inflammation or irritation of the bile ducts in the liver. The inflammation or irritation blocks the flow of bile to the ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has become a widely available and routine procedure, whilst open cholecystectomy has largely been replaced by a laparoscopic approach, which may ...

By October of that year, he received the devastating diagnosis of bile duct cancer and passed away just three weeks later. Left a widow and single mother to two young sons, Dominic, now 12 ...

It stores and concentrates bile produced in the liver. Bile aids in the digestion of fat and is released ... develop inflammation in the gallbladder (acute cholecystitis), which occurs when stones or ...