Imaging of Acute Hepatobiliary Dysfunction

HeiShun Yu; Jennifer W Uyeda

doi:10.1016/j.rcl.2019.08.008

Imaging of Acute Hepatobiliary Dysfunction

Radiol Clin North Am. 2020 Jan;58(1):45-58. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2019.08.008.

Authors

HeiShun Yu¹, Jennifer W Uyeda²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31731902
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2019.08.008

Abstract

Abdominal pain is a common cause for emergency department visits in the United States, and biliary tract disease is the fifth most common cause of hospital admission. Common causes of acute hepatobiliary include gallstones and its associated complications and multiple other hepatobiliary etiologies, including infectious, inflammatory, vascular, and neoplastic causes. Postoperative complications of the biliary tract can result in an acute abdomen. Imaging of the hepatobiliary tree is integral in the diagnostic evaluation of acute hepatobiliary dysfunction, and imaging of the biliary tree requires a multimodality approach utilizing ultrasound, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, and MR imaging.

Keywords: Acute cholecystitis; Gallstone; Hepatobiliary dysfunction.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Biliary Tract / diagnostic imaging*
Biliary Tract / physiopathology*
Biliary Tract Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Biliary Tract Diseases / physiopathology*
Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
Humans