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What is the treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis?
Ursodeoxycholic acid, a chemical that dissolves gall stones, provides substantial symptomatic relief. It is still unclear if it slows liver damage. Patients also do well with liver transplantation.
What precautions need to be taken when doing transhepatic biliary catheterization?
Patients who need transhepatic biliary catheterization often suffer from additional complications of their cancer. Because of the likelihood of bleeding from the liver, this procedure should not be done on patients who.
At what rate may patients with cholelathiasis develop biliary colic which usually requires surgery?
Overall, patients with cholelathiasis have about a 20% chance of developing biliary colic (the extremely painful complication that usually requires surgery) over a 20-year period.
Who is most likely to develop primary biliary cirrhosis?
Ninety percent of patients with this disease are women between the ages of 35 and 60.
Do gallstones cause physical discomfort?
Approximately 80% of gallstones do not cause significant discomfort. Patients who develop biliary colic generally do have some symptoms.
What are normal results of ERCP?
In more than 90% of patients, the placement of a biliary stent relieves the obstruction and allows the bile duct to drain properly.
How should patients be prepared for a transhepatic biliary catheterization?
The standard preoperative blood tests are performed. The patient should not eat or drink the day of the procedure.
What is the progression of primary biliary cirrhosis?
In some patients, the disease destroys the liver in as little as five years. In others, it may lie dormant for a decade or more.
What is aerobilia?
AIR IN BILIARY SYSTEM. AIR IN BILIARY SYSTEM.
What is the medical condition primary biliary cirrhosis?
Primary biliary cirrhosis is the gradual destruction of the biliary system for unknown reasons.
What are the biliary apparatus?
biliary apparatus collects bile from live and store it in gall bladder
What does an 8 mm lesion in segment 6 of the liver medially with no intrahepatic biliary dilation mean?
On the far right and bottom chunk of the liver, but towards the left side of that chunk, there's a quarter-inch abnormality. The ducts within the liver are not abnormally widened.
