<unk>  cholangitis is a relatively uncommon disease. It usually occurs following other diseases that lead to biliary infection and stasis. In the Western world, about 15000 out of 100,000 of all people have gallstones in their gallbladder but the majority are unaware of this and have no symptoms. Over ten years, 15000 to 26000 out of 100,000 will suffer one or more episodes of biliary colic (abdominal pain due to the passage of gallstones through the bile duct into the digestive tract), and 2000-3000 out of 100,000 will develop complications of obstruction: acute pancreatitis, cholecystitis or acute cholangitis. 500 to 2400 patients out of 100,000 people can develop acute cholangitis following ERCP. Mortality rate of acute cholangitis after the year 2000 was found to be 2700-10,000 per 100,000 people.
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