Tadahiro Takada, Steven M Strasberg, Joseph S Solomkin, Henry A Pitt, Harumi Gomi, Masahiro Yoshida, Toshihiko Mayumi, Fumihiko Miura, Dirk J Gouma, O James Garden, Markus W Büchler, Seiki Kiriyama, Masamichi Yokoe, Yasutoshi Kimura, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Takao Itoi, Toshifumi Gabata, Ryota Higuchi, Kohji Okamoto, Jiro Hata, Atsuhiko Murata, Shinya Kusachi, John A Windsor, Avinash N Supe, SungGyu Lee, Xiao-Ping Chen, Yuichi Yamashita, Koichi Hirata, Kazuo Inui, Yoshinobu Sumiyama
In 2007, the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (TG07) were first published in the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. The fundamental policy of TG07 was to achieve the objectives of TG07 through the development of consensus among specialists in this field throughout the world. Considering such a situation, validation and feedback from the clinicians' viewpoints were indispensable. What had been pointed out from clinical practice was the low diagnostic sensitivity of TG07 for acute cholangitis and the presence of divergence between severity assessment and clinical judgment for acute cholangitis...
January 2013: Journal of Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Sciences