Health disparities are defined as “differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States” (US Department of Health and Human Services 2002). Arguably the most remarkable health disparities in the United States is the difference in the incidence of biliarytract cancers (BTC)...

Minimally invasive percutaneous techniques, staged as part of the combined treatment high stricture complications biliary tract, demonstrated efficiency in short term. On other hand, use self-expanding nitinol stents a definitive for non-tumor tract long-term life prognosis cannot be recommended routine intervention. The these cases can only justified absence alternative options, subject to fre...

INTRODUCTION Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is generally considered a safe option for the management of large complex or infectious upper urinary tract calculi. Biliary tract injury is a rare and potentially serious complication of percutaneous nephrolithotomy that can even lead to mortality, especially in cases where biliary peritonitis develops. All reported cases of biliary tract injury have b...

UNLABELLED Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) is accepted referred method of treatment of the choledocholithiasis. THE AIM OF THE STUDY Evaluation of efficacy and safety of the endoscopic treatment of the biliary tract stones. MATERIAL AND METHODS Results of 3309 Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) carried out in Division of Endoscopy of the General Su...

HYPOTHESIS Preemptive cholecystectomy in cardiac transplant patients with radiographic biliary pathology reduces the morbidity and mortality of biliary tract disease following heart transplantation compared with expectant management. DESIGN AND SETTING Institutional survey at the University of Washington, Seattle. PATIENTS Cardiac transplant recipients between January 1, 1992, and January 1...

The objective of this study was to analyze the hepatic imaging findings concerning clinical data on clonorchiasis. From August 1994 to September 2009, 13 patients were diagnosed with hepatic clonorchiasis by identification of adult flukes in the biliary tract through biliary drainage and/or surgery at a single institution. We analyzed their medical records and imaging findings by cholangiograph...

Fascioliasis is a health problem in several countries including the Islamic Republic of Iran.  In a review of the medical publications during 1990-2002, only 22 cases of biliary tract obstruction by fasciola hepatica have been reported.  Herein, we are adding a new case of fasciola hepatica causing bile duct obstruction and presenting with intermittent colicky pain, eosinophilia and bile duct d...

Biliary tract cancers are aggressive malignancies that include gallbladder cancer and tumors of intra- and extrahepatic ducts and have a poor prognosis. Surgical resection remains the main curative therapy. Nevertheless, numerous patients experience recurrence even after radical surgery. This scenario drives the research to identify biliary tract cancer biomarkers despite the limited progress t...

A candidate tumor suppressor gene, DPC4, located at 18q21.1, has recently been shown to be inactivated in half of pancreatic adenocarcinomas. The close developmental relationship of the pancreas and biliary tract prompted us to determine the role of DPC4 in the multistep carcinogenesis of biliary tract carcinoma. A search for mutations in the genomic sequence of the highly conserved COOH-termin...

INTRODUCTION Pancreas divisum is the most common congenital pancreatic anomaly; occurring in approximately 7.5% of the general population. It is recognized as a potential risk factor for recurrent acute pancreatitis, and possible chronic pancreatitis. Pancreas divisum results from the failure of fusion of the ventral and dorsal ductal system. The hypothesis of our study was that pancreas divisu...