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Published on: September 13, 2022
Treatment of acute cholangitis with hepatolithiasis
Li Bing-lu1, Zheng Chao-ji, Liu Wei
1Department of Surgery, PUMC Hospital, CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100730, China.
Objective:
To evaluate the treatment of recurrent acute cholangitis with hepatolithiasis.
Methods:
We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of patients with recurrent acute cholangitis who were treated in Peking Union Medical College Hospitals emergency department from January 1998 to December 2008.
Results:
Totally 408 patients underwent surgery, of which 167 patients received emergency operations and 241 underwent selective operations after medication and interventional treatment. The incidence of complications was 6.4% among those who received emergency operations and 3.2% among selective operations. The 30-day mortality rate of selective operations was zero.
Conclusion:
Along with the progress of percutaneous cholangiographic drainage and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, selective operations have been increasingly applied for acute cholangitis with notably low complications and postoperative death.
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