Every day, your liver cells make almost a liter of bile, a dark green liquid that flows into tubes called bile ducts. From there, the bile passes into the duodenum, a section of your small ...

A duct also connects the duodenum to the gallbladder. This pear-shaped sac squeezes out green-brown bile, a waste product collected from the liver that contains acids for dissolving fatty matter.

liver, and brain. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), a form of metabolic surgery, establishes duodenal exclusion by diverting intestinal contents away from the upper GI tract. This intervention ...

Gallstones cause your gallbladder to spasm if they get stuck traveling to your duodenum (the upper small ... Bile build-up in your gallbladder and liver raises bilirubin levels in your blood ...