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    Ascending cholangitis, also known as acute cholangitis or simply cholangitis, is inflammation of the bile duct, usually caused by bacteria ascending from...
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    Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a long-term progressive disease of the liver and gallbladder characterized by inflammation and scarring of the...
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    and alkaline phosphatase. AST and ALT can be elevated or normal. Ascending cholangitis is a complication of choledocholithiasis. When a gallstone obstructs...
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    and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. It occurs as a result of ascending cholangitis (an infection of the bile duct in the liver). When the presentation...
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    above symptoms coincide with fever and chills, the diagnosis of ascending cholangitis may also be considered. More than 70% of people with gallstones...
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  • a collection of signs and symptoms consistent with obstructive ascending cholangitis, a serious infection of the biliary tract. It is a combination of...
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    Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis (RPC), also known as Hong Kong disease, Oriental cholangitis, and Oriental infestational cholangitis, is a chronic infection...
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  • cholecystitis, but negative in choledocholithiasis, pyelonephritis, and ascending cholangitis. Classically, Murphy's sign is tested for during an abdominal examination...
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    obstruction, the bile may become infected by bacteria resulting in ascending cholangitis. In medical theories prevalent in the West from classical antiquity...
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    Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), previously known as primary biliary cirrhosis, is an autoimmune disease of the liver. It results from a slow, progressive...
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    pancreas, and bile ducts to the duodenum in conditions such as ascending cholangitis due to obstructing gallstones. Pancreatic and biliary stents can...
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  • duct Primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic autoimmune disease leading to liver failure Secondary sclerosing cholangitis, an umbrella term for other...
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    the biliary duct is called cholangitis, which may be associated with autoimmune disease, such as primary sclerosing cholangitis, or a result of bacterial...
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  • other diseases of the biliary tract: cholangitis (including ascending cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis) obstruction, perforation, fistula...
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    PMID 1563308. S2CID 21258760. Kinney TP (April 2007). "Management of ascending cholangitis". Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America. Endoscopic...
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    hepatitis cystic fibrosis primary biliary cholangitis, an autoimmune disorder primary sclerosing cholangitis, associated with inflammatory bowel disease...
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    (gallstones) Can predispose to cholecystitis (gall bladder infections) and ascending cholangitis (biliary tree infection) Can progress to choledocholithiasis (gallstones...
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    state, the duct is especially vulnerable to an infection called ascending cholangitis. One form of treatment is a cholecystenterostomy. Rare deformities...
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    Murphy's sign does not rule out all gallbladder diseases such as ascending cholangitis. Using an ultrasound transducer supplanting a physician's hands...
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  • esophagus, enlarged colon Charcot's triad Jean-Martin Charcot surgery ascending cholangitis jaundice, fever and chills, RUQ pain Charcot's triad Jean-Martin...
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  • other diseases of the biliary tract: cholangitis (including ascending cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis) obstruction, perforation, fistula...
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    liver, therefore it is useful for biliary tract infections, such as ascending cholangitis. Like all other beta-lactam antibiotics, mezlocillin inhibits the...
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  • cavity (ascites), enlarged non-functional gallbladder and also ascending cholangitis, which can lead to periductal fibrosis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis...
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  • hepatomegaly Budd–Chiari syndrome Charcot's cholangitis triad Right upper quadrant pain, fever, jaundice Ascending cholangitis Charcot's neurologic triad Scanning...
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    sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a progressive inflammatory disorder of small and large bile ducts. Up to 70-90% of people with primary sclerosing cholangitis have...
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  • Enterocolitis Duodenitis Ileitis Caecitis Appendicitis Proctitis Hepatitis Ascending cholangitis Cholecystitis Pancreatitis Peritonitis Dermatitis Folliculitis Cellulitis...
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    gallbladder Bile duct/ Other biliary tree Cholangitis Primary sclerosing cholangitis Secondary sclerosing cholangitis Ascending Cholestasis/Mirizzi's syndrome Biliary...
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    who had his offices here in 1980 and 1981, published significant Ascending cholangitis research, and argued for changes at the federal level to support...
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    using Osaka dialect, which is one of Kansai dialect. Tanabe died by ascending cholangitis on 6 June 2019 at a hospital in Kōbe, Hyōgo. 1956 Osaka Citizen...
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  • Secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease. SSC is a sclerosing cholangitis with a known cause. Alternatively, if no...
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