• Internal medicine · Aug 2022

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    Sustained Eosinophilic Cholangitis Due to a Mite Allergy Mimicking Sclerosing Cholangitis.

    • Masayo Motoya, Shun Takai, Hiroshi Moriya, Takehiro Hirano, Kohei Wagatsuma, Yasunao Numata, Yujiro Kawakami, Yoshiharu Masaki, Keisuke Ishigami, Ayako Murota, and Hiroshi Nakase.
    • Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2022 Aug 15; 61 (16): 2477-2482.

    AbstractEosinophilic cholangiopathy (EC) presents with thickening and stenosis of the bile duct wall that is histologically characterized by eosinophil infiltration. The diagnosis is often difficult. We herein report a patient who had been followed up with a diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis but had a final diagnosis of EC based on eosinophilia, histological findings of bile duct and liver biopsy specimens, and a review of a previous surgical specimen of the gallbladder. Antigen tests, isolation from her house, and accidental re-exposure to the antigen revealed that the causative antigen was the mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus.

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