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Colangite aguda

Last reviewed: 19 Mar 2025
Last updated: 20 Nov 2024

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • dor no quadrante superior direito/dor na parte superior do abdômen
  • sensibilidade no quadrante superior direito/na parte superior do abdome
  • icterícia
  • febre
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Other diagnostic factors

  • fezes claras
  • prurido
  • hipotensão
  • alterações do estado mental
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Risk factors

  • Idade mais avançada
  • colelitíase
  • estenose benigna
  • estenose maligna
  • lesão do ducto biliar pós-procedimento
  • história de colangite esclerosante primária
  • história de colangite esclerosante secundária
  • Infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)
  • inibidores de checkpoints imunológicos
  • Doença digestiva relacionada à imunoglobulina (Ig) G4
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • Hemograma completo
  • ureia sérica
  • creatinina sérica
  • Análise da gasometria arterial
  • testes séricos da função hepática
  • proteína C-reativa
  • potássio sérico
  • magnésio sérico
  • hemoculturas
  • painel da coagulação
  • ultrassonografia transabdominal
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Tests to consider

  • colangiopancreatografia retrógrada endoscópica (CPRE)
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) do abdome com contraste intravenoso
  • colangiopancreatografia por ressonância magnética (CPRM)
  • ultrassonografia endoscópica (USE)
  • colangiografia trans-hepática percutânea (CTP)
  • abordagens cirúrgicas
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

agudamente doente

ONGOING

com coledocolitíase, colangite esclerosante primária ou colangiopatia por vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV)

Contributors

Authors

Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE

Professor of Medicine

Director, Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CATE)

Porter Adventist Hospital, Centura Health

Denver

CO

Disclosures

DGA has provided consulting and speaking services for Abbvie, Boston Scientific Olympus America, and Cook Endoscopy, some of which make products relevant to this topic. He is also an author of references cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Dr Douglas G. Adler would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Andrew S. Fedoravicius, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

ASF declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Christian Macutkiewicz, MD, FHEA, FRCS

Consultant General & Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Manchester

UK

Disclosures

CM declares that he has no competing interests.

David J. Hackam, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh

PA

Disclosures

DJH declares that he has no competing interests.

Todd Baron, MD

Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Mayo Clinic Rochester

Rochester

MN

Disclosures

TB is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Dennis Freshwater, MB, BS, MD, FRCP

Consultant Hepatologist

The Liver and Hepatobiliary Unit

Queen Elizabeth Medical Care Unit

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

DF declares that he has no competing interests.

Bertus Eksteen, MRCP, PhD, MRC

Clinical Scientist

University of Birmingham

Honorary Consultant

Liver Transplant Unit

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

BE declares that he has no competing interests.

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