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Colangite esclerosante primária

Last reviewed: 12 Dec 2025
Last updated: 14 Nov 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • sexo masculino
  • história de doença inflamatória intestinal
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Other diagnostic factors

  • idade 25-45 anos
  • dor abdominal
  • prurido
  • fadiga
  • perda de peso
  • febre
  • icterícia
  • esteatorreia
  • esplenomegalia
  • ascite
  • encefalopatia
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Risk factors

  • sexo masculino
  • doença inflamatória intestinal (DII)
  • predisposição genética
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • fosfatase alcalina sérica
  • gama-glutamiltransferase sérica
  • aminotransferases séricas (aspartato aminotransferase, alanina aminotransferase)
  • bilirrubina total sérica
  • albumina sérica
  • Hemograma completo
  • tempo de protrombina
  • ultrassonografia abdominal
  • colangiopancreatografia por ressonância magnética (CPRM)
  • imunoglobulina G4 (IgG4) sérica
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Tests to consider

  • colangiopancreatografia retrógrada endoscópica (CPRE)
  • IgM sérica
  • anticorpo antinuclear
  • anticorpo antimúsculo liso
  • anticorpo antimitocondrial
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) abdominal
  • biópsia hepática
  • densitometria óssea
  • colonoscopia
  • exames não invasivos baseados em imagens para fibrose
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

doença inicial

doença hepática em estágio terminal

Contributors

Authors

S. Ian Gan, MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

Vancouver General Hospital

University of British Columbia

Vancouver

BC

Disclosures

SIG declares that he has no competing interests.

Nawaf Tareq Aboalfaraj, MBBS, FRCPC

Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellow

McGill University

Montreal

QC

Disclosures

NTA declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr S. Ian Gan and Dr Nawaf Tareq Aboalfaraj would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Kris V. Kowdley and Dr Christine Schlenker, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

KVK is a member of the speakers bureau of Axcan Pharma, manufacturer of Urso250 and Urso Forte, and gives one or two lectures a year on treatment of cholestatic liver diseases. KVK has also received funding from the NIH for a research study of Urso in PSC. CS declares that she has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

LIsa Forman, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of Colorado

Aurora

CO

Disclosures

LF declares that she has no competing interests.

James Neuberger, BM, BCh

Consultant Physician

Liver Unit

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

JN declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

European Association for the Study of the Liver. EASL clinical practice guidelines on sclerosing cholangitis. J Hepatol. 2022 Sep;77(3):761-806.Full text  Abstract

Bowlus CL, Arrivé L, Bergquist A, et al. AASLD practice guidance on primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangiocarcinoma. Hepatology. 2023 Feb 1;77(2):659-702.Full text

Chapman R, Fevery J, Kalloo A, et al. Diagnosis and management of primary sclerosing cholangitis. Hepatology. 2010 Feb;51(2):660-78.Full text  Abstract

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