The efficacy of endoscopic treatment in primary sclerosing cholangitis has not been clearly established. This report presents endoscopic intervention in 53 consecutive patients with this disorder. Pertinent data were abstracted from the GI-TRAC database, medical records, and cholangiograms, and clin
Endoscopic therapy for cholangitis in cirrhosis
β Scribed by D Carr-Locke
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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β¦ Synopsis
ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY FOR CHOLANGITIS their presentation. Group 2 comprised 12 patients with cirrhosis, the ethology of which was not provided but
IN CIRRHOSIS
were subclassified into Child Class A in 5, B in 2, and Chijiiwa K, Kozaki N, Naito T, Kameoka N, Tanaka C in 5. Group 1 consisted of 27 patients labeled ''acute M. Treatment of choice for choledocholithiasis in paobstructive suppurative cholangitis,'' a diagnosis made tients with acute obstructive suppurative cholangitis by the combination of clinical features of cholangitis, and liver cirrhosis.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Primary biliary cirrhosis is characterized by the immune-mediated, nonsuppurative destruction of intrahepatic small bile ducts, with significant T-cell involvement. To date, B cells in livers of primary biliary cirrhosis patients have been ignored in immunopathological evaluations of nonsuppurative