Inflammatory diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts


 * Inflammation of the wall Gallbladder most often caused by - E.coli,  Staphylococci,  Streptococci, more rarely other intestinal bacteria, Salmonella], clostridia,
 * routes of infection - bloodstream, lymphatic or ascending,
 * Some cholecystitis can be caused by toxic congestion during congestion.

Primary sclerosing cholangitis

 * It is autoimmune disease that affects men more than women.
 * As a result of bile congestion during stenoses in the intrahepatic bile ducts, liver cirrhosis develops,
 * The disease is a "predisposing factor" for bile duct tumors (especially cholangiocarcinoma, Klatskin's tumor).
 * Associated with IBD and ulcerative colitis


 * Therapy


 * surgical treatment is not possible (definitive treatment is liver transplantation).