A cough in a patient with cholangitis in the course of caroli's disease. Case report

Cough may be a manifestation of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary diseases. However, rarely liver disease is suspected as a cause of acute cough. A case of a 34-year-old patient with diagnosed Caroli's disease has been described, in which cough with fever was the main manifestation of cholangitis in the course of complications of the underlying disease. Caroli's disease is a congenital pathology of intrahepatic bile ducts, causing their cysts to widen. It usually has an asymptomatic course, however it promotes infectious complications such as liver abscesses and recurrent cholangitis. The patient was admitted to the ward because of high fever and cough, without any symptoms from the digestive system. On the basis of laboratory, microbiological and visual examinations, various causes of cough were excluded and a diagnosis of cholangitis was made. After appropriate antibiotic therapy, a rapid improvement in the clinical condition and resolution of symptoms was achieved.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:72

Enthalten in:

Wiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960) - 72(2019), 2 vom: 26., Seite 294-297

Sprache:

Polnisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaszyńska, Aleksandra [VerfasserIn]
Zielonka, Tadeusz M [VerfasserIn]
Życińska, Katarzyna [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Biliary cysts
Caroli’s disease
Case Reports
Cholangitis
Cough
Differential diagnosis
Extra-pulmonary causes of cough
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.08.2019

Date Revised 28.08.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295263032