cholangitis

I am your host, Dr. Jamie Coleman.

Today, we will be discussing the review article, Diagnosis and Management of Acute Cholangitis.

You can find a link to it in this episode's description.

We are here with two of the authors today, Dr. Christian DiVirgilio from the Department of Surgery, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and Ms. Ariana Constantopoulos from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

In fact, there was a Dutch study that demonstrated that you should really do the cholecystectomy at the index hospitalization because there's a 30% rate of developing recurrent pancreatitis within a month.

But in acute cholangitis, we don't have that literature about the timing, neither whether it should be indexed or later or when during the index hospitalization.

Dr. DiVirgilio and Ms. Constantopoulos, thank you both for joining me today to discuss the review article, Diagnosis and Management of Acute Cholangitis.

Our listeners can find a link to the article in this episode's description.

I don't even know how to say this.

Cholangitis.

Cholangitis, yeah.

So I think there was a mention of this... by her doctor but like they had no idea right

yeah just guess yeah