Research Progress on the Pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

  • 峙橦 陈
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  • Department of General Surgery Sanya Central Hospital Hainan Sanya 572000, China

Received date: 2024-10-12

  Revised date: 2025-09-02

  Accepted date: 2025-12-03

  Online published: 2025-12-17

Abstract

Primary sclerosing cholangitis PSC is a relatively rare biliary disease with a slow course and characterized by extensive fibrosis of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts resulting in progressive thickening of the bile duct wall and narrowing of the lumen ultimately leading to cirrhosis and liver failure and liver transplantation is the only effective treatment method. The causes of PSC are highly complex and the pathogenesis has not been fully elucidated. In recent years many studies have shown that PSC is a progressive disease mainly driven by abnormal immune responses under the background of genetic susceptibility based on bile duct epithelial cells and influenced by intestinal microbiota disorders. Multiple factors immunity bile ducts microbiota bile acids etc. interact to form malignant outcomes jointly promoting inflammation bile duct destruction and fibrosis processes leading to the occurrence of PSC. Based on relevant literaturethis study provides an overview and summary of the pathogenic factors PSC such as immunology gut microbiota infection bile acid metabolism genetics aiming to provide new directions and strategies for the treatment of PSC in clinical practice.

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峙橦 陈 .

Research Progress on the Pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL GUIDE, 2025 , 27(10) : 1040 -1040-1045 . DOI: magtech.2024.10.12-00001

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