Clinical Study

Recurrent Pyogenic Cholangitis: Disease Characteristics and Patterns of Recurrence

Table 2

Comparison of the initial and long-term failures of different treatment modalities.

Treatment modality Initial failureLong-term failure

ERCP guided9/25
(36.0%)
17/25
(68.0%)
PTC guided1/6
(16.7%)
1/6
(16.7%)
Non-operative treatment10/31
(32.2%)*
18/31
(58.1%)
Operative biliary drainage only3/30
(10.0%)
7/30
(23.3%)
Hepatectomy only0/80/8
Hepatectomy and operative biliary drainage2/11
(18.2%)
3/11
(27.3%)
Operative treatment5/49
(10.2%)*
10/49
(20.4%)

, ; Fischer’s exact test.