“The stent had migrated into the liver and essentially turned into a stone,” explained Dr Dipak Bhangale, consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Kokilaben Hospital, who led her treatment ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;24(5):762-769. The use of endoscopic therapy to manage post-surgical bile duct leaks is well established in clinical practice. However, in literature, there is no ...

"The Justice is resting comfortably and expects to be released from the hospital by the end of the week," a statement from the Supreme Court read Ruth Bader Ginsburg is "resting comfortably" in a New ...

Now, doctors at the University of Virginia Health System report that placing self-expanding metal tubes or stents (covered with a synthetic material) to drain the common bile duct is a safe and ...

Stents to treat various blockages in the human body can themselves become blocked, but a new sensor developed at the University of Michigan for stents that are used in the bile duct may one day help ...

Researchers from Italy have reported results from more than 10 years of follow-up showing that the placement of multiple endoscopic stents for the treatment of postoperative biliary strictures remains ...

In a study of more than 100 patients with common bile duct strictures at a dozen institutions, ECDS was associated with a significantly higher technical success rate than ERCP of 93.7% versus 77.2%, ...

Detailed results of the multinational scientific study conducted by Massachusetts-based medical equipment manufacturer Boston Scientific Corporation ( BSX) has been recently published in the August ...

NEW YORK (March 20, 2013) -- A multi-center analysis, led by Weill Cornell Medical College and published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, shows the use of temporary "fully covered ...

NATICK, Mass., Boston Scientific Corporation has completed enrollment in a clinical trial to evaluate its WallFlex® Biliary RX Fully Covered Stent for the treatment of benign bile duct strictures ...

> They say you get what you pay for--so why not go for broke where lobbying is concerned? Perhaps that's what four Big Pharma companies were thinking when they spent some serious cash to lobby ...

In the current study, we investigated 56 patients with bile duct lesions associated with cholecystectomy. The type of biliary lesion was classified by using endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.