ACUTE (ASCENDING) CHOLANGITIS
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
- Vol. 14 (3), 521-546
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0891-5520(05)70119-7
Abstract
Cholangitis includes acute (ascending) cholangitis, oriental or recurrent cholangitis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related sclerosing cholangitis (AIDS cholangiopathy), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). This review covers the first two. AIDS cholangiopathy recently has been reviewed,171 and PSC is an immunologic entity that has been described elsewhere.4, 139Keywords
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