2024-04-02 16:38:01
I usually have trouble digesting food, so I only took digestive medicine… Is that biliary/gallbladder disease? Fatal biliary tract and gallbladder cancer, which has a 5-year survival rate of only 29%, must be treated before it is too late.
The bile ducts and gallbladder are important organs that help our body digest! What role do the bile duct and gallbladder, whose names are unfamiliar, play? Most of the bile excreted from the liver is secreted into the small intestine to aid digestion, and the remaining bile is stored in the gallbladder.
The biliary tract serves as a passageway that starts from the liver, passes through the pancreas, and connects to the duodenum, which is why various diseases can occur. Representative biliary and gallbladder diseases include inflammation and cancer. In particular, the biliary tract and gallbladder are located deep in our body, so it is difficult to detect the disease early, or when it is discovered, the disease is often already quite advanced.
Additionally, the 5-year survival rate for biliary tract cancer is 29%, so early detection is important because the prognosis is poor. In the ‘For those of you who have difficulty digesting – Biliary Gallbladder –’ episode, a gastroenterologist and a hepatobiliary pancreatic surgeon talk about unfamiliar but fatal diseases of the biliary tract and gallbladder.
EBS [명의] <‘담도 담낭’소화가 어렵다는 당신에게> The episode will be broadcast on EBS1TV at 9:55 pm on Friday the 10th.
Sudden abdominal pain! Is the cause a stone in the stomach?
A man in his 70s, who was living a peaceful life after 38 years of teaching, was confident in his health enough to play table tennis every day with his club members. However, a month ago, after enduring a sudden onset of abdominal pain at night, I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to die like this,’ and ended up holding my stomach with one hand and driving with the other to go to the hospital emergency room.
The cause is gallstones, which are stones accumulated in the gallbladder! Stones accumulated in the gallbladder flowed down into the bile duct, causing inflammation and causing severe abdominal pain. The stone in the biliary tract was removed with an endoscope, but the stone still remained in the gallbladder, requiring resection. Men about to have surgery are full of worries about whether it will be okay to have their gallbladder removed. What role does the gallbladder play? Would I be okay without a gallbladder? The name answers the question.
Occurs less than 1 per 100,000 people, primary cholangitis
There is a female patient in her 70s who has been receiving gastroenterology treatment once every six months for 14 years. This is a patient with primary cholangitis. Primary cholangitis is a very rare disease that occurs in less than 1 patient per 100,000 people. Moreover, since the cause of its occurrence is unknown and there is no specific treatment, thorough management is necessary.
The symptoms that this patient initially developed, such as high liver levels, jaundice, and fatigue, were mainly liver-related. This is because chronic inflammation of the biliary tract affects the liver. Primary cholangitis, which suddenly appears one day without any reason and requires lifelong management, is decided to be examined by a gastroenterologist.
Is it bile duct cancer? Is it cholangitis?
A man in his 60s who has been suffering from nausea for a month is waiting for his test results. At first, I thought I got sick while eating and only took digestive medicine, but my weight dropped by nearly 18kg compared to a year ago, I developed symptoms of jaundice, and I was so scared of getting sick that I couldn’t even eat, so I came to the hospital. A patient urgently visited the gastroenterology department at a hospital near his home because the endoscopy and cytology results showed malignancy. And in order to accurately diagnose whether it was a malignant tumor, a joint consultation between a gastroenterology specialist and a hepatobiliary pancreatic surgeon began.
If it is cancer, surgery is needed. Biliary tract cancer surgery is a complex and major surgery that involves removing the biliary tract and reconstructing the small intestine so that it can take on the role of the biliary tract, so an accurate diagnosis is necessary. Moreover, the prognosis for biliary tract cancer is not good, so patients are full of worry. Is it really cancer? Is it inflammation?
Name <소화가 어렵다는 당신에게 –담도 담낭–> In this episode, we will learn more about unfamiliar but fatal diseases of the biliary tract and gallbladder.
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2024-04-02 16:38:01