Meanings of biliary obstruction in English

Before surgery the patient showed neither clinical nor laboratory marks of biliary obstruction.

We report our experience, in a retrospective review, of 505 patients with malignant biliary obstruction.

Relieving biliary obstruction was not successful in our patient.

We analyzed 29 patients in whom bile duct stenting was performed for malignant biliary obstruction.

For patients with high biliary obstruction drained by a T-tube, achieving internal drainage requires special techniques.

This paper gives an overview of experience and success of percutaneous transhepatic interventions in malignant biliary obstruction.

Jaundice is the dominant symptom in patients with biliary obstruction from carcinomas of the pancreatic head area.

However, the molecular mechanisms of these adaptive responses in human obstructive cholestasis due to gallstone biliary obstruction remain unclear.

Spontaneous tumor necrosis and biliary obstruction caused by tumor thrombi, superimposed with bacterial infection, were the two major pathogeneses.

It achieves biliary drainage with an acceptable risk to benefit ratio in the majority of patients with distal malignant biliary obstruction.

The role of ERCP and endoscopic drainage in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with malignant biliary obstruction is well established.

Discussion: The indications for metallic stent placement for biliary obstruction caused by lymph node metastases from the gastrointestinal tract seem limited.

Non-surgical methods to treat patients with inoperable malignant biliary obstruction are endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage and ultrasound guided percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage.

An animal model of experimental selective biliary obstruction supported a causative association between reduction of hepatocyte mass and a decrease in ALP activity.

Hepatic fibrosis is an outcome of many chronic liver diseases, such as viral and autoimmune hepatitis, and of alcohol consumption and biliary obstruction.

Due to appearance of jaundice, biliary obstruction had been ruled out by a CAT scan previous to the patients presentation in our practice.