Acute inflammation or acute cholangitis may indicate mechanical obstruction, whereas inflammation or nonsuppurative cholangitis are accompanied by degenerative changes which are most frequently observed in chronic cholestatic diseases such as primary biliary cirrhosis Figure 15 and primary sclerosing cholangitis.
La inflamación aguda o colangitis aguda puede indicar obstrucción mecánica, mientras que la inflamación o colangitis no supurativa acompañada de cambios degenerativos se observa especialmente en enfermedades colestásicas crónicas como cirrosis biliar primaria figura 15 o colangitis esclerosante primaria.