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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Endosonography-guided biliary drainage is a new method that enables internal drainage of bile. A research group performed histological examination of and around the fistula created by ESBD in a ...

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 ...

Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) selected as next indication for PCI Biotech. Clinical proof of concept study to start by end of 1H 2013 Oslo, 21 August 2012 - PCI Biotech (PCIB) the Norwegian ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) usually develops in the bile duct system that arises from the liver and bile ducts and ends at the small intestine. Cancer that develops in the section of bile ...

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This bile duct stent with the "Dua Anti-Reflux Valve," named after its inventor, was cleared for use by FDA this year. The Dua stent, for short, has also been approved for use in Europe and Canada.