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Bile* ; Biliary Tract Diseases* ; Biliary Tract*

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Biliary Tract Diseases* ; Biliary Tract* ; Reoperation*

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Bile* ; Biliary Tract Diseases* ; Biliary Tract*

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Biliary Tract* ; Lymphatic Diseases*

Percutaneous cholangioscopy was performed on 270 patients with biliary disease at Trung Vuong Emergency Center in HCM city. The endoscope was inserted into the bile ducts through either a T-tube tract 187 cases or a percutaneous transhepatic tract 83 cases. Indications included cholelithiasis in 262 patients, common hepatic duct stricture after cholecystectomy in 3, and suspected malignant biliary obstruction in 5. Interventional maneuvers included electrohydraulic lithotripsy, extraction of stones and ascaris, dilatation of bile duct stricture, libiary cutaneous stenting, and biliary biopsy
Biliary Tract Diseases ; diagnosis ; therapeutics ;

Biliary Tract Diseases ; Humans ; MicroRNAs

Newly introduced direct peroral cholangioscopy and the development of video choledochoscopes have enabled more defined observation of bile duct mucosal lesions with clearer images. Narrow-band imaging (NBI) is a unique endoscopic imaging technology that provides enhanced endoscopic images of surface mucosal structures and its superficial microvessels. Advanced cholangioscopy and NBI are expected to be useful for precise evaluation and correct diagnosis of biliary tract diseases. However, the diagnostic value of advanced bile duct imaging with cholangioscopy requires further evaluation.
Bile Ducts* ; Bile* ; Biliary Tract Diseases ; Biliary Tract* ; Diagnosis ; Microvessels

Aged ; Biliary Tract Diseases ; surgery ; China ; Humans

Biliary tract diseases have always been one of the important indications for liver transplantation. These biliary tract diseases include congenital atresia of biliary duct, biliary diseases with tendency of malignant transformation, malignant biliary diseases, primary biliary cirrhosis, and secondary biliary cirrhosis. The right time to consider liver transplantation for the above biliary diseases includes situations when transplantation is the only approach to treat the disease, the only effective approach to treat the disease, or one of the effective approaches to treat the disease. Currently there is still no commonly accepted pre-operative evaluation standard for biliary disease-related liver transplantation. However, it is important to obey the following principles. First, the diagnosis should be confirmed; secondary, the necessity or urgency of the liver transplantation should be clarified; and third, the patient and his/her family should understand the whole procedure of transplantation the risk and advantage of the surgery, and the potential life-long intake of immunosuppressors. This article will briefly review all these relavant issues based on the authors' personal experience and clinical cases.
Biliary Atresia ; surgery ; Biliary Tract Diseases ; surgery ; Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary ; surgery ; Liver Transplantation ; Living Donors

There have been some differences between the manifestations of biliary tract diseases in the Korean population and those in the populations of western countries, and these differences have been varying recently. A clinical analysis of 1000 patients who had been treated surgically for biliary diseases at the Department of General Surgery, St. Benedict Hospital, during the period of 10 years from January 1986 to December 1995 was done, and the results were compared with those of previous reports. The following subjects emerged as points of variance : 1) The incidence of the each biliary tract disease, 2) In calculous biliary disease, the location of the stone and the chemical composition of the stone, 3) Parasitic biliary disease, 4) The sex ratio and the age distribution, 5) The duration of illness, 6) Common symptoms and signs and their frequency, 7) Positive laboratory findings and the availability of radiologic diagnoses, 8) Common organisms in the bacterial culture, 9) The management of biliary diseases, and 10) Postoperative complications and the mortality rate. The clinical manifestations of biliary diseases have changed gradually and have been influenced by multiple factors: improvements inf living, education, and the environment, advances in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, etc.. Although these changes are due to the influences of westernization, they should also exhibit Korean-unique charecteristics. Also, we l expect further improvements in the future, and keep in mind those different points, there should be further suitable management, depending on changing features.
Age Distribution ; Biliary Tract Diseases* ; Biliary Tract* ; Diagnosis ; Education ; Humans ; Incidence ; Mortality ; Postoperative Complications ; Sex Ratio