Ahmad Anouti, MD, a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, spoke with Healio about “clear-cut indicators” to differentiate between different types of autoimmune biliary diseases. He ...

Most patients with an abnormal intraoperative cholangiogram at laparoscopic cholecystectomy undergo postoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to remove residual common bile ...

Your liver makes bile, a chemical that helps you digest food. The plumbing system of ducts that runs between your liver, gallbladder, and small intestine is how bile moves around. Some of it goes ...

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (per-kew-tay-nee-us trans-hep-attic col-an-jee-o-gram) is a way of looking at your bile ducts using x-rays. This test is also called a PTC. You may have a ...

THE results of surgical exploration of infants with biliary atresia have been discouraging, for only a small percentage of these patients have proved to have a mechanical block that could be relieved ...