Additional diagnostic tools include liver biopsy, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), and endoscopic ...

A diagnosis of AIH, PBC, or PSC in a patient with liver disease always requires careful exclusion of other major causes of liver damage, including alcoholic, viral, drug- and toxin-induced ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a rare liver disease. It blocks and destroys bile ducts in the liver. Doctors used to call it “primary biliary cirrhosis.” “Biliary” means bile.

Apoptotic cell death is regarded as an important pathogenetic mechanism in the major immune-mediated liver diseases, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and autoimmune hepatitis.

“The results of the interim analyses are very impressive as they confirm the potential of volixibat in targeting bile acids in PBC and PSC,” study investigator Kris Kowdley, MD, professor at ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune disorder that leads to the destruction of bile ducts within the liver. As more bile ducts become lost and damaged, bile acids build up within the ...

MRCP (UK), ESEGH, PhD, Associate Professor and Consultant Hepatologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. "After many years of treating people with PBC, I have seen the critical unmet ...

Journalist Annie Lowrey suffers from primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a degenerative liver disease in which the body mistakenly attacks cells lining the bile ducts, causing them to inflame.

The most common types of CLDs are primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC ... resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), and endoscopic retrograde ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a rare autoimmune disease affecting the bile ducts in the liver. When bile ducts become damaged, bile can build up in the liver, leading to inflammation and ...