Researchers identified bile duct dysplasia or cancer in most explanted livers with an indication of biliary dysplasia, although as many as 41% had no signs of neoplasia, according to a study of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
“Primary sclerosing cholangitis, in short PSC, is one of the leading causes of liver transplantation in the Nordic countries with a high risk of developing cholangiocarcinoma prior to liver transplantation,” Sigurd Breder, MD, of the Norwegian PSC Research Center, said at EASL Congress. “A practice of preemptive liver transplantation in