title: Spectrum of cholangitis.
abstract: Of 402 patients admitted with biliary disease over the last three years, cholangitis has been diagnosed in 36. This represents an 8.8 per cent overal incidence and a 33.8 per cent incidence among patients who have undergone operation or manipulation involving the common duct. Based on this experience, a program of prophylaxis and treatment of cholangitis has been devised with special emphasis on the management of elderly patients in the initial postoperative period.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001646:Bile / Q000382:microbiology; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D002758:Cholangiography / Q000009:adverse effects; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000601:surgery; D004322:Drainage; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections