Biliary Decompression in Acute Suppurative Cholangitis

Acute suppurative cholangitis (AOSC) is a serious threat to the life of patients, and the most common disease is bile duct calculi, followed by tumor. Once diagnosed, biliary obstruction should in principle be removed urgently and the pressure in the bile duct should be reduced. PTCD, EBD or surgical treatment can relieve biliary obstruction, achieve biliary decompression, to achieve the purpose of treatment.

PTCD can make many high-risk, elderly, unable to tolerate surgery through the risk period, create conditions for elective surgery, thus greatly reducing the case fatality rate of elective surgery, because of its relatively simple operation, small damage, the curative effect is worthy of praise and other advantages, PTCD treatment of AOSC is worth promoting.