| 11. | Clinical features may vary but commonly include Cholangitis, hepatomegaly and signs of portal hypertension.
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| 12. | In this clogged state, the duct is especially vulnerable to an infection called ascending cholangitis.
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| 13. | The most common bacteria linked to ascending cholangitis are cocci, Enterococcus causes 10 20 %.
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| 14. | Fever indicates a complicating bacterial cholangitis.
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| 15. | With primary sclerosing cholangitis, believed genetic in origin, your immune system attacks your bile ducts.
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| 16. | Morbidity is common and is caused by complications of cholangitis, sepsis, choledocholithiasis, and cholangiocarcinoma.
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| 17. | Type 1 is associated with pancreatitis, Sjogren syndrome, Primary sclerosing cholangitis and Inflammatory bowel disease.
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| 18. | Rarely are diseases of the bile ducts, such as primary sclerosing cholangitis, causes of cirrhosis.
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| 19. | The free or " unchaperoned " bile acids in bile of patients with MDR3 deficiency cause a cholangitis.
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| 20. | "' Ductopenia "'refers to a reduction in the number of primary biliary cholangitis.
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