Is sclerosing cholangitis serious

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Sclerosing cholangitis this disease may be relatively unfamiliar to you, there is no further understanding. Sclerosing cholangitis is a cholestatic syndrome. Affecting the normal life of patients, let's talk about the severity of sclerosing cholangitis.

Is sclerosing cholangitis serious

First, there is no specific treatment for this disease, mainly non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment is only effective for some patients. The basic treatment of non-surgical treatment of this disease is medical treatment, including cholestatic amine, antibiotics, short-term prednisone treatment and immunosuppressive therapy. Surgical treatment surgical treatment is suitable for extrahepatic bile duct segmental stenosis and complications.

Second: sclerosing cholangitis refers to a series of symptoms characterized by cholangitis and obstructive jaundice due to incarceration of stones in the neck of gallbladder or cystic duct and (or) compression or inflammatory spread of other benign diseases causing obstruction of common hepatic duct or common bile duct in varying degrees.

Third: the disease is more common in the elderly, most patients have a history of gallstones, recurrent biliary colic and jaundice, patients with cholangitis can have typical abdominal pain, jaundice, high fever and chills triad; most patients have mild jaundice or jaundice history, but also no jaundice.

matters needing attention

When patients find that they are suffering from sclerosing cholangitis, they can go to the hospital for detailed examination to find out the cause of their illness, and then carry out symptomatic treatment under the guidance of the doctor's advice, so as to ease their condition and get rid of the pain caused by the disease.