Cholangitis

Acute Cholangitis

  • Always think about cholangitis in any ill-appearing patient with RUQ pain or undifferentiated sepsis.
  • Charcot’s triad and Reynold’s pentad are not reliable. Absence of these clinical findings does not rule out cholangitis.  Use the total picture with clinical exam, labwork, and imaging studies.
  • Early antibiotics and consultation for biliary decompression are mainstays of therapy.

EMKF

Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF) is a not-for-profit (NGO) public benefit organisation registered in Kenya