Biliary Fistula

03/01/1986 - "The present studies were undertaken 1) to assess the quantitative absorption of total bile acids in the portal vein of normally fed, unanesthetized pigs with an intact biliary tract and 2) to evaluate the effect of a chronic reentrant biliary fistula on absorption. "
12/01/1975 - "Alert, unanesthetized female rhesus monkeys prepared with a total biliary fistula were allowed to reach a steady bile salt secretion rate before each study. "
04/01/1996 - "The steady-state absorption of eight conjugated bile acids from a perfused jejunal segment was measured in the anesthetized biliary fistula guinea pig. "
01/01/1996 - "The compound was administered intravenously to anesthetized biliary fistula rats at doses of 1, 3, or 5 mu mol/kg-min and to hamsters at 3 mu mol/min-kg. Biliary bile acids and radioactivity were analyzed by thin-layer chromatography (TLC), high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). "
01/01/1993 - "Using anesthetized biliary fistula guinea pigs or rats, the ileum was perfused with ursodeoxycholyltaurine at a concentration causing maximal ileal transport of this bile acid; absorption was assessed by biliary recovery. "

11/20/2017 - "The ratio of the bilirubin concentration in abdominal drainage fluid to the serum bilirubin concentration (d-Bil/s-Bil) has been used as a predictor of biliary fistula (BF) formation after hepatobiliary surgery. "
11/20/2017 - "Total bilirubin amount in drainage fluid can be an early predictor for severe biliary fistula after hepatobiliary surgery."
12/01/1989 - "However, septic and hemorrhagic complications appeared to be more frequent with preoperative bilirubin levels above 20 mg/dl (0.05 less than P less than 0.1), while all postoperative pancreatic and biliary fistulas occurred in patients with a bilirubin level below 6 mg/dl (P less than 0.01). "
12/01/1987 - "Emptying of the gall-bladder, measured by bilirubin output from the biliary fistula, started shortly before the peak rise in pressure occurred. "
02/01/1967 - "3. Effect of several drugs on the excretion of bile and bilirubin in the albino rat with a biliary fistula]."

10/01/2010 - "We report herein a case of thoraco diaphragmatico biliary fistula in a 24-year-old male who was managed conservatively with antibiotics and tube thoracostomy and had complete radiological clearance."
01/01/1991 - "It was established that intravenous administration of antibiotics at the maximum dosages with purposeful sanation of the bile ducts via the external biliary fistula at the preoperative period improved the immediate and long-term results of treatment of the patients. "
03/01/2021 - "Main recommendations include concepts of intra-abdominal infection, pathoqen diagnosis precautions; surgical intervention principles and strategies of specific causes including acute appendicitis, upper gastrointestinal perforation, lower gastrointestinal perforation, acute biliary infection, liver abscess, severe acute pancreatitis, pancreatic fistula, biliary fistula, anastomotic leakage, gastrointestinal perforation, as well as perforation due to endoscopic procedure etc.; principles of antimicrobial therapy, dosage of antibiotics in specific population and pathophysiological state; and systematic support of severe infection such as early resuscitation and nutrition support. "
10/01/1987 - "When the antibiotic was administered intravenously to biliary fistula rats, the blood acetaldehyde level did not increase. "
03/01/2023 - "After percutaneous drainage of the biloma and antibiotic therapy the complex biliary fistula was closed first with coil embolization of the small connection to the common bile duct and then with both antegrade and retrograde histoacryl embolization of the hereby created complete isolated right segmental hepatic duct injury in a single session. "

08/08/2017 - "CONCLUSIONS Chemical ablation of the bile duct using absolute ethanol is an effective treatment for biliary leak following hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, even in cases with non-communicating biliary fistula. "
08/08/2017 - "Injection of absolute ethanol into the bile duct requires correct identification of the bile duct, and balloon occlusion is useful to avoid damage to the surrounding tissues, even in cases with non-communicating biliary fistula and bile leak. "
09/01/1992 - "In one patient, a biliary fistula developed after the first aspiration; the second ethanol injection was postponed until 6 months later but was effective. "
04/01/2003 - "Percutaneous sclerotherapy by the injection of ethanol was found to be useful for closing a noncommunicating external biliary fistula."
07/01/2002 - "Ethanol injection therapy can be a choice for management of patients with a biliary fistula caused by an isolated bile duct."

04/01/1990 - "These results suggest that SMS 201-995 might be useful in the treatment of external biliary fistulas."
01/01/1996 - "Successful control of external biliary fistula by using SMS 201-995 in a child."
05/01/1995 - "In the patient with the biliary fistula a 30% reduction was observed twice following the administration of octreotide, and an increase occurred when it was withheld. "
01/01/1996 - "The use of Sandostatin in the management of a case of complicated biliary fistula is reported; it controlled the fistula reducing its daily output from 200 ml to less than 5 ml per day."
05/01/1995 - "Within 24 hours of octreotide treatment, a mean reduction of 52% in the intestinal fistulas' output, 40% in the pancreatic fistulas, and 30% in the biliary fistula was noted. "

01/01/2023 - "Biliary leaks are a common complication and have been positively correlated with the cyst diameter (~ 79% of cysts with diameter of 7.5 cm or greater have cysto-biliary fistula).6 In this context, indocyanine green may help to identify relevant biliary radicals entering the cyst or aid in recognizing bile leaks. "
05/01/2022 - "A case of 60-year-old man with intestinal obstruction is reported, an entero-biliary fistula is suspected, and intravenous application of indocyanine green is decided, despite the great inflammatory process and fibrotic tissues found during the procedure, safe open cholecystectomy was achieved."

07/01/1975 - "Copper metabolism after biliary fistula, obstruction, or sham operation in rats."
09/01/1979 - "In rats with a biliary fistula, a situation in which enterohepatic circulation was completely eliminated, the analgesic response to a dose of LAAM (6 mg/kg, sc) was not different from sham-operated control group. "

09/01/1979 - "In rats with a biliary fistula, a situation in which enterohepatic circulation was completely eliminated, the analgesic response to a dose of LAAM (6 mg/kg, sc) was not different from sham-operated control group. "

11/01/2018 - "In conclusion, our punctured-liver drainage could be effective for the treatment of isolated biliary fistula, allowing physicians to avoid an invasive additional liver resection or other invasive percutaneous approach using chemical reagents."

04/01/2011 - "Two cases developed biliary fistula that were successfully treated with complete drainage for 2 to 3 weeks; 2 cases abdominal infection managed with anti-infection and completely drainage; 4 cases stress ulcer cured with Losec and coagulant. "

10/01/1994 - "In our experience the treatment of postoperative biliary fistula with a distal obstruction bile flow by endoscopic sphincterotomy is a safe and effective procedure, and should be recommended as the first option in those patients."
11/01/2014 - "Endoscopic sphincterotomy, biliary stenting, and nasobiliary tube drainage are effective for treating postoperative biliary fistulas."
06/01/2002 - "Endoscopic sphincterotomy is safe and effective and should be considered the minimally invasive procedure of choice for the management of postoperative biliary fistula due to HHD because it obviates the need for reoperation. "
01/01/2005 - "A biliary fistula appeared after 4 days and was successfully treated by endoscopic sphincterotomy. "
02/01/2003 - "In the majority of patients, endoscopic sphincterotomy allows healing of postoperative external biliary fistulas, and should be performed as early as possible. "

01/01/1997 - "To assess safety and efficacy of endoscopic therapy for patients with a postoperative biliary fistula. "
07/01/2007 - "Percutaneous interventional therapy of persistent biliary fistulas."
08/01/2001 - "Nonoperative therapy of the posttraumatic biliary fistula in adolescents."
10/01/2000 - "[A case report of intra-thoracic biliary fistula after percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy]."
11/15/1994 - "[Endoscopic therapy of postoperative biliary fistula]."

01/01/2000 - "Endoscopic biliary stent placement is a rapid, safe and effective treatment for persistent post-traumatic biliary fistula demonstrated by ERCP."
08/01/2010 - "This 10 F stent is superior to other endoscopic approaches in the treatment of biliary fistulas."
01/01/2022 - "Iatrogenic porto-biliary fistula following biliary stent placement is a rare and potentially life-threatening ERCP complication. "
01/01/2022 - "An endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was complicated with a porto-biliary fistula due to the misplacement of a biliary stent. "
04/01/2019 - "One patient developed a biliary fistula, which closed spontaneously within 2 weeks after stent insertion. "

03/01/2010 - "Placement of drains was effective in a considerable proportion of patients undergoing hepatectomy, with regard to reducing the frequency of development of subphrenic fluid collections and biliary fistula/biloma formation."
01/01/2020 - "This randomized trial did not demonstrate superiority of transcystic drainage during hepatectomy in preventing biliary fistula. "
01/01/2020 - "This study evaluated the effect of transcystic biliary drainage during hepatectomy on the occurrence of postoperative biliary fistula. "
12/01/2021 - "Author response to: Prevention of biliary fistula after partial hepatectomy by transcystic biliary drainage: randomized clinical trial."
12/01/2021 - "Prevention of biliary fistula after partial hepatectomy by transcystic biliary drainage: randomized clinical trial."

06/01/2022 - "This was confirmed postoperatively in the development of a biliary fistula after the primary laparotomy. "
05/01/2012 - "Treatment is focused on urgent laparotomy and resolution of the intestinal occlusion, leaving management of the biliary fistula to only selected cases."
10/01/1994 - "The only complication worth mentioning out of 27 choledocholithotomies performed is an external biliary fistula (3.7%) treated with a following laparotomy operation. "
03/01/2007 - "Biliary fistula occurred in two of the five thoracotomy patients surviving operation and in two laparotomy patients (2/6). "
11/01/2012 - "Once therapy was completed and the child was deemed free of disease, she underwent exploratory laparotomy with Roux-en-Y biliary cystenterostomy for definitive management, resulting in resolution of her biliary fistula, jaundice, and marked improvement in her nutritional status. "