Cholecystitis An inflammation of the gallbladder. Symptoms of cholecystitis include pain in the upper center or right abdomen that can extend to the right shoulder or back, bloating, fever, nausea, ...

A doctor explained why you have unexpected diarrhoea after getting that gallbladder removal surgery. It has to do with the excess bile produced by your liver. Have you or someone close to you ever ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...

Each presented as a papillary frondlike projection into the lumen of the lower end of the biliary tree. In Case 16 this growth extended submucosally up the bile duct through the margin of ...

Biliary colic (also known as a "gallbladder attack") is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts. Bile ducts carry bile (digestive fluid) from your liver to your ...

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 ...

Now, work led by Sheng-Cai Lin, Chen-Song Zhang, and Xianming Deng of Xiamen University in China links the benefits of calorie restriction to a bile acid called lithocholic acid, which works by ...