Features of AIDS Cholangiopathy | Medical Algorithm

Are you evaluating a patient for biliary tract disease?

Yes

Does the patient have?

• AIDS?

Yes

• pain and tenderness in the right upper quadrant?

Yes

• a low grade fever?

Yes

• an elevated serum alkaline phosphatase?

Yes

• gallstones or inflammatory bowel disease?

Yes

Does ERCP or ultrasonography show?

• irregular thickening of the bile duct walls?

Yes

• patchy dilatation of the bile ducts?

Yes

• trictures in the bile duct?

Yes

• papillary stenosis?

Yes

Do samples of bile or biopsies from the bile ducts show evidence of?

• cytomegalovirus (CMV)?

Yes

• Cryptosporidium?

Yes

• Microsporidium?

Yes

• Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare?

Yes

• tumor (Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)?

Yes

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Features of AIDS Cholangiopathy (AIDS-Related Sclerosing Cholangitis)

Purpose: To evaluate a patient with AIDS for evidence of secondary sclerosing cholangitis (AIDS cholangiopathy).