cholangitis

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• In elderly and high-risk patients, it may represent an important alternative to bile duct clearance, particularly in gallstone cholangitis or pancreatitis.

  Academic text (2000)

• A limited sphincterotomy was done before stent insertion to reduce the risk of cholangitis noted in earlier work.

  Academic text (2000)

• Because of the risk of subsequent cholangitis, its use as a definitive treatment should be confined to highly selected cases.

  Academic text (2000)

• Again, cholangitis was more frequent in those with a gallbladder (four) than in those without (two).

  Academic text (2000)

• The second or biliary stage usually presents with intermittent right upper quadrant pain with or without cholangitis or cholestasis.

  Academic text (2007)

• The median time to onset of cholangitis seems to be around 16 weeks, and patients with a gallbladder in situ seem at greater risk than those without.

  Academic text (2000)

• When patients presented with cholangitis, jaundice, or a flu-like syndrome and cholestasis, ERCP was done to confirm obstruction of the endoprosthesis.

  Academic text (1992)

• Of those patients who developed cholangitis after having had their common bile duct cleared of stones, all had a gallbladder in situ as well as a previous standard sphincterotomy.

  Academic text (2000)

• In the under-60 age group, the mortality rate for common bile duct exploration is only 2% or less, but after 60 years of age, it increases sharply, particularly when infectious complications such as suppurative cholangitis are present or when emergency procedures are required.

  Academic text (2000)

• Patients suffering from cholangitis often experience symptoms like fever and abdominal pain.

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