Potential complications of bile duct scarring include bile duct infections (cholangitis), cirrhosis of the liver, and bile duct cancer. Often patients have no symptoms but abnormal liver chemistries ...

Abbreviations: AIH = autoimmune hepatitis; ALT = alanine aminotransferase; γ-GT = γ-glutamyltransferase; PSC = primary sclerosing cholangitis. Diagnostic pathways in autoimmune liver disease.

The symptoms of primary biliary cholangitis get worse over time and can vary from person to person. In the earliest stages, there may be no symptoms. In fact, at diagnosis, about 60% of people don ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the evolving operative strategies in the treatment of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis (RPC ... The clinical diagnosis of RPC was made in patients with a syndrome of chronic ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) can deliver a significant ... their 70s or even 80s with PBC who are doing very well." Early diagnosis is challenging when many patients present without symptoms ...

Back to Healio The FDA has granted Cour Pharmaceuticals orphan drug designation for CNP-104, a biodegradable nanoparticle in development for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis ...