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Primary sclerosing cholangitis

Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a rare, chronic cholestatic liver disease characterised by biliary inflammation and fibrosis. Inflammatory bowel disease co-occurs in 50–80% of individuals with primary sclerosing cholangitis and there is an increased risk for hepatobiliary and colorectal cancers. Primary sclerosing cholangitis presentation is highly variable but there is usually a slowly progressive fibrosis of the bile ducts with strictures, development of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, and eventually a need for liver transplantation, after which primary sclerosing cholangitis can reoccur.

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