Acute cholangitis is a severe, bacterial infection of the biliary tract precipitated by an obstruction that often results in systemic inflammation and, in some cases, life‐threatening sepsis. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Statin therapy decreased the risk for developing acute cholangitis among patients with primary ...

Healio spoke with Marlyn Mayo, MD, about increased research focused on symptoms of primary sclerosing cholangitis presented at The Liver Meeting, as well as treatments being ...

Acute cholangitis is a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection that often is associated with gallstones. Symptoms include fever, jaundice, right upper quadrant pain, and elevated liver ...

Patients with acute cholangitis are twice as likely to be readmitted within 30 days if they don't get a cholecystectomy in the same hospital admission for which they get biliary decompression, ...

Acute cholangitis is diagnosed on the basis of the clinical features, supported by laboratory evidence of systemic infection. Imaging is helpful in revealing biliary obstruction and any underlying ...

Cholecystectomy No significant differences in surgical complication risk were seen in early or delayed cholecystectomy for acute cholangitis and acute cholecystitis. No significant differences in ...

New research finds that machine-learning algorithms can help health care staff distinguish the two conditions. Researchers show how algorithms may be effective predictive tools using a few simple ...

OR: Odds ratio, 95% CI: 95% Confidence Interval, LOS: Length of Stay, ERCP: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Syphilis in its early stages increases liver enzymes alanine transaminase, aspartate aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyltransferase and/or alkaline phosphatase resulting in a clinical picture that ...