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Cholestatic liver diseases: slow progress in understanding and treating slowly progressive disorders.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology. Supplement - 1 Jan 2000
Vleggaar F P, Van Ooteghem N A, Van Buuren H R, Van Berge Henegouwen G P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cholestatic liver diseases are characterized by failure of normal amounts of physiological bile to reach the gastrointestinal tract. Any interference with normal bile flow from the canalicular membrane of the hepatocyte to the distal common bile duct may result in cholestasis. METHODS: Literature review. RESULTS: In primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the small intrahepatic bile ducts are destructed,...
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