RESEARCH ARTICLE
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis - Current Issues in Clinical Practice
L. Corless1, 2, H. Tsai*, 1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2012Volume: 6
First Page: 45
Last Page: 51
Publisher Id: TOPHARMJ-6-45
DOI: 10.2174/1874143601206010045
Article History:
Received Date: 29/5/2012Revision Received Date: 31/7/2012
Acceptance Date: 14/08/2012
Electronic publication date: 9/10/2012
Collection year: 2012
© 2012 Corless and Tsai;
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Aims:
To review current issues in the diagnosis and treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis.
Methods:
search of PubMed using the terms “primary sclerosing cholangitis”, “PSC”, “cholangitis” and “cholestasis”, as well as by review of current guidelines from the major international liver societies.
Results:
Primary sclerosing cholangitis is still a challenging condition to diagnose and manage, but newer imaging modalities like MRCP and timing of liver transplantation point the way forward.
Keywords: Primary sclerosing cholangitis, ulcerative colitis.
