Microbiological findings in bile cultures of patients with acute cholangitis undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

Acute cholangitis (AC) is potentially fatal. Microbiological identification and susceptibility to antibiotics is essential in every hospital to direct treatment (1). Our hospital is a third-level cancer center. A retrospective, analytical study of 30 patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiography with AC and positive biliary culture (BC) was performed over a period of six months.