Results from a blood test may indicate an infection or inflammation in the gallbladder, bile ducts, pancreas, or even the liver. Imaging tests can help identify gallstones in your gallbladder.

If too much fat builds up in the liver, it can lead to inflammation, which can cause complications. Certain changes to your diet and exercise routine may help reverse the condition. Fatty liver is ...

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The integumentary system is the body’s outermost layer. Composed of skin, hair, nails, glands, and nerves, its main job is to protect your insides from elements in your environment, like pollution and ...

The most commonly used medications to treat OAB have anticholinergic properties. Anticholinergics are competitive inhibitors of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors (mainly the M3 receptor ...

They’re also known as sunspots, solar lentigines, or liver spots — even though they have nothing to do with your liver. They are caused by long-term ultraviolet (UV) light exposure from both ...

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There are other non-infectious IUC-related adverse effects that occur the longer an indwelling urinary catheter (IUC), particularly a transurethral IUC, is used for bladder drainage. They include ...

Catheter related problems due to an indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) have existed as long as urinary catheters have been utilized. This section will review IUC complications: infectious complications ...