Endoscopic approach to indeterminate biliary strictures [PDF]
Clinical EndoscopyDiagnosis of biliary strictures remains challenging because of the low sensitivity of conventional transpapillary sampling using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
Yousuke Nakai +4 more
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Diagnostic Approach to Biliary Strictures. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Biliary strictures represent a narrowing of the bile ducts, leading to obstruction that may result from benign or malignant etiologies. Accurate diagnosis is crucial but challenging due to overlapping features between benign and malignant strictures. This review presents a comprehensive diagnostic approach that integrates biochemical markers, imaging ...
Raza D +13 more
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Benign Biliary Strictures: A Systematic Review on Endoscopic Treatment Options
Diagnostics, 2020 Benign biliary strictures can be difficult to manage. Untreated biliary strictures can lead to complications, such as chronic cholestasis, jaundice, recurrent sepsis, and secondary biliary cirrhosis, which can have severe ramifications.
Arthur Kaffes, May Wong, Payal Saxena
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A practical approach to the endoscopic management of biliary strictures after liver transplantation
Annals of HepatologyBiliary tract complications are an important cause of morbidity and mortality after liver transplantation (LT) occurring in 5% to 25% of patients. The most common biliary complication in LT recipients are strictures representing approximately half of ...
Andres Cárdenas
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Benign Biliary Strictures [PDF]
Seminars in Interventional Radiology, 2016 Differentiating benign and malignant biliary strictures is a challenging and important clinical scenario. The typical presentation is indolent and involves elevation of liver enzymes, constitutional symptoms, and obstructive jaundice with or without superimposed or recurrent cholangitis.
Ashley, Altman, Steven M, Zangan
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Post-living donor liver transplant biliary strictures: prevalence, predictors, and long-term outcomes in a retrospective study [PDF]
Clinical Transplantation and ResearchBackground : Post-liver transplant biliary strictures are a common cause of morbidity among patients who have undergone living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).
Shekhar Singh Jadaun +9 more
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Frontiers in OncologyBackgroundIt is still a challenging problem for clinicians to explore the nature of the indeterminate biliary strictures (IBSs). Approximately 20% of biliary strictures remain undetermined after a thorough preoperative assessment.Case presentationHere ...
Zhang Peipei
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Feasibility of Peroral Cholangioscopy in the Initial Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography for Malignant Biliary Strictures [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground: Peroral cholangioscopy (POCS) is valuable for assessing malignant biliary strictures; however, biliary drainage prior to POCS often hinders accurate diagnosis.
Yuichi Suzuki +7 more
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Endoscopic Evaluation of Biliary Strictures: Current and Emerging Techniques [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2021 The diagnosis of biliary strictures in clinical practice can be challenging. Discriminating between benign and malignant biliary strictures is important to prevent the morbidity and mortality associated with incorrect diagnoses.
Roy Huynh +4 more
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Comprehensive landscape and oncogenic role of extrachromosomal circular DNA in malignant biliary strictures [PDF]
Cell & BioscienceBackground Extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) is crucial for carcinogenesis and bile has direct contact with malignant biliary strictures, yet eccDNA features in bile and its function in malignant biliary strictures remain underexplored.
Zhuo Cheng +8 more
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