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pancreatitis due to the brushing of the duct. Boy was he wrong.
Rick was taken to recovery and rested... and there is a lot more narrowing of the smaller ducts and the common bile duct now has a dominant stricture...
about what might be happening. His biggest worry was that there might be a hole in the bile duct somewhere that was leaking... came in and told us that he had pancreatitis. The CT scan showed no leaks. The doctor looked me right in the eye...
So as many of you know by following my Twitters on my sidebar, Rick is in the hospital with pancreatitis. He had his ERCP on wednesday and he developed a severe case of pancreatitis. It was so bad...
Rick's IV continued to drip his only source of nutrition at a quick pace. It also pumped him full of different antibiotics and his pain meds. After around 60 hours without anything by mouth he was allowed to have his first d
When we arrived on the fifth floor we discovered that Rick would have a roommate. Apparently the hospital was very full that night. I had this sinking feeling because I knew that I wasn't supposed to stay in the room when th 
between the duodendum and the common bile duct was really inflamed, so they cut it open and took some tissue...
problems in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and pancreas. The liver is a large organ... organ that stores bile until it is needed for digestion. The bile ducts are tubes that carry bile...
Rick will be having an ERCP tomorrow (wednesday) afternoon. He has to check in at the hospital at 2:30 for a 4:00 procedure. It should take about 90 minutes, after which he will need to be in recovery for another 90 minute
secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine through a tube called the pancreatic duct... them.
Unless the pancreatic duct or bile duct is blocked by gallstones, an acute attack usually lasts only a few days...
secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine through a tube called the pancreatic duct... them.
Unless the pancreatic duct or bile duct is blocked by gallstones, an acute attack usually lasts only a few days... 
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