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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Anila Hussain, MD

Overview

Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, a French physician, is credited with discovering cholangitis in the late 19th century. He referred to the condition as "hepatic fever." Charcot's triad of fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant abdominal pain is the classical presentation of cholangitis. By adding septic shock and mental status changes to the list of symptoms, Dr. B. M. Reynolds and Dr. Everett L. Dargan changed Charcot's triad to Reynold's pentad. Until 1968, the mainstay of treatment of cholangitis was surgery, with the exploration of the bile duct and excision of gallstones, until the advent of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

Historical Perspective

  • Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, a French physician, is credited with discovering cholangitis in the late 19th century. He referred to the condition as "hepatic fever." Charcot's triad of fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant abdominal pain is the classical presentation of cholangitis.
  • By adding septic shock and mental status changes to the list of symptoms, Dr. B. M. Reynolds and Dr. Everett L. Dargan changed Charcot's triad to Reynold's pentad.
  • Until 1968, the mainstay of treatment of cholangitis was surgery, with the exploration of the bile duct and excision of gallstones, until the advent of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

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