Should lactate be added to Tokyo criteria for the evaluation of patients with acute cholangitis?

Erdinç Gülümsek Fatih Yesildal Ismail Yigitdol İbrahim Erdem Huseyin Can Arbag Akkan Avci Tayyibe Saler Banu Kara Adnan Taş Hilmi Erdem Sumbul

Published in: Irish journal of medical science (2022)

The blood lactate level is associated with the severity of AC. In addition to TG13/18 guidelines, blood lactate level can be a useful biomarker in the severity grading of AC.

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clinical practice
ulcerative colitis