Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: More than 33,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States every year. Only 15% to 20% ...

Biliary stent migration represents a significant clinical challenge, occurring when stents inserted to relieve biliary obstructions dislodge from their intended positions. This phenomenon can lead to ...

Benign biliary strictures secondary to chronic pancreatitis can prove refractory to long-term biliary stenting, frequent endoscopic re-interventions, and corrective surgery. This case discusses a ...

Benign biliary strictures after liver transplantation are usually treated by repeated endoscopic interventions or surgery. A group of researchers in Australia reported the outcome of two patients with ...

The use of metal stents has significantly reduced the need for re-stenting and proven to be cost effective when compared to surgical biliary bypass. 23 The use of radiation therapy in conjunction with ...

An anti-reflux valve developed to help esophageal cancer patients also has been shown to help those with bile duct obstruction, according to Kulwinder S. Dua, M.D., a research physician at the Medical ...

It is estimated that about 90% of the time, bile-duct stents are used off-label, and last year FDA held a meeting for bile-duct stent manufacturers to go over what they can and cannot promote to ...

Natick, MA – Boston Scientific Corporation’s WallFlex® Biliary RX Fully Covered Stent has received Health Canada approval for the treatment of benign biliary strictures, which supplements its current ...

Background and Aim: Bile duct lesions, including leaks and strictures, are immanent complications of open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Endoscopic procedures have gained increasing potential as the ...

Abbott Laboratories ($ABT) was cleared by a Texas federal jury of accusations it violated the False Claims Act by wrongly marketing bile duct stents in a ...