You have had a drain placed in your biliary system, which you will need to care for until it is removed. This will include daily flushing the tube as well as cleaning the tube site and changing the ...

A bile duct drain, also called biliary drainage, can help treat blocked bile ducts so that bile may flow as it should, helping your liver digest fats. Learn more about biliary drainage ...

Biliary drainage is performed as a palliative treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The reduction of serum bilirubin is usually the hallmark of successful biliary drainage. However, some patients ...

April 29, 2004 — It is beneficial to replace bile during external biliary drainage, according to the results of a study published in the April issue of the Annals of Surgery. "Several authors ...

Endoscopic biliary draining yielded a superior adverse event rate compared with percutaneous drainage among patients with pancreatic cancer, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

The benefits of preoperative biliary drainage, which was introduced to improve the postoperative outcome in patients with obstructive jaundice caused by a tumor of the pancreatic head, are unclear.

Highlights for biliary stricture drainage include: Routine preoperative biliary drainage is not recommended in patients with extrahepatic stricture due to resectable pancreatic cancer or ...

1 Seventy-nine of the 101 patients (78.2 percent) underwent surgical biliary drainage. The other 22 patients did not undergo surgery because the associated risks were considered to be too high.