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Background/Aims: Acute cholangitis (AC) is a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection, and timely antimicrobial treatment, faster than that achieved with bacterial cultures, is recommended.
Although the current guidelines refer to empirical antimicrobial...
Kawamura S, Karasawa Y, Toda N, Nakai Y, Shibata C, Kurokawa K, Arai J, Funato K, Kurosaki S, Maeshima S, Kondo M, Kojima K, Ohki T, Seki M, Koike K, Tagawa K
Background/Aims: Empiric antibiotics are given in combina-
tion with biliary drainage for acute cholangitis but sometimes turn out to be insensitive to microorganisms in blood and bile. Clinical outcomes were compared...