TY - JOUR
AR - SCR-2020-12-121
TI - Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis as an Unusual Indication for Liver Transplantation in a Center of a Western Country
AU - Concepción , Gómez-Gavara
AU - Lluís , Castells
AU - Isabel , Campos-Varela
AU - Berta , Pares Bofill
AU - Rocío , Martín
AU - Anna , Curell
AU - Cristina , Dopazo
AU - Elizabeth , Pando
AU - Mireia , Caralt
AU - M. Teresa , Salcedo
AU - Ernest , Hidalgo
AU - Itxarone , Bilbao
AU - Ramón , Charco
JO - Surgical Case Reports
PY - 2020
DA - Wed 23, Dec 2020
SN - 2613-5965
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.SCR.2020.12.21
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/recurrent-pyogenic-cholangitis-as-an-unusual-indication-for-liver_SCR-2020-12-121 
KW - Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis, oriental cholangitis, liver transplantation, hepatolithiasis
AB - Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis is a chronic infection characterized by intrahepatic biliary stones and
strictures. Escherichia coli is the commonest infecting organism. This disease is very common in East Asia
but infrequent in Western countries, and few reports have been published in European series. The
therapeutic approach for hepatolithiasis is highly individual and includes antibiotic therapy, endoscopic and
percutaneous biliary drainage with stone removal and dilation of strictures, surgical resection of affected
liver segments and liver transplantation. We report two cases of RCP in Chinese patients treated with liver
transplantation at our center out of the 34 published in the literature.