bile ducts
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Some cases involved vanishing bile duct syndrome, a liver condition characterized by the progressive destruction of bile ducts in the liver, the agency said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Mrs K, a patient at Wrexham Maelor hospital, died on 31 January 2022 from biliary sepsis, a serious infection of the bile ducts.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024
“His cancer was just continuing to grow, and his bile ducts were getting compromised because the cancer was pushing on them even more. He was really getting so very sick. It was horrible.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
Animals infected with many liver flukes can suffer liver damage as the parasite moves around the host's liver and bile ducts.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2023
Perhaps at a subsequent operation we find the bile ducts effectively blocked and then learn for certain that the stool coloration observed was not biliary but due to a chemical reaction of the calomel itself.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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