Articles tagged "Bile duct"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Inflammasome Activation in Hepatocytes and Kupffer Cells Orchestrates the Hepatotoxic Effect of Bile Acids and Can Be Potential Target in the Management of Cholestatic Liver Injury
X. Liu,¹ T. Ma,¹ T. Billiar,² R. Tao.¹
¹Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial Peoples' Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China; ²Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: Cholestatic liver injury (CLI) is commonly associated with many hepatobiliary diseases and substantially increases the peri-operative morbidity and mortality in liver surgery and transplantation.…