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Also known as ''suppurative cholangitis'', ''exudative cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis'' and ''acute cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis''.
Also known as ''suppurative cholangitis'', ''exudative cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis'' and ''acute cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis''.
==Signalment==
==Signalment==
More common in cats than in dogs.
==Aetiology and Pathogenesis==
==Aetiology and Pathogenesis==
Neutrophilic cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis results from asecending bacterial infection from the small intestines. ''Escherichia coli'', ''Staphylococcus spp.'', ''Streptococcus spp.'', ''Clostridium spp.'', ''Bacillus'', ''Actinomyces'', ''Bacteroides'' and occasionally ''Salmonella spp.'' have been isolated. Concurrent underlying biliary tract disease are common in cats
Neutrophilic cholangitis/cholangiohepatitis results from asecending bacterial infection from the small intestines. ''Escherichia coli'', ''Staphylococcus spp.'', ''Streptococcus spp.'', ''Clostridium spp.'', ''Bacillus'', ''Actinomyces'', ''Bacteroides'' and occasionally ''Salmonella spp.'' have been isolated. Concurrent biliary tract disease are common in cats, especially pancreatits and inflammatory bowel diesease. Other predisposing factors include bile duct obstruction, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis.
==Diagnosis==
==Diagnosis==
===Clinical Signs===
==Treatment==
==Treatment==
==Prognosis==
==Prognosis==