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Pancreatic function after severe acute biliary pancreatitis: the role of necrosectomy.
2004
OBJECTIVES To investigate the recovery of pancreatic function after severe acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP), especially the influence of necrosectomy on endocrine and exocrine functions. METHODS Prospective cohort study including 39 patients with severe ABP. According to need or no need for surgical necrosectomy, patients were further subdivided into 2 groups. Functional pancreatic evaluation was carried out 12 months after the ABP episode. Endocrine function was evaluated by an oral glucose tolerance test and exocrine function by fecal fat excretion, fecal chymotrypsin (FQ), and secretin-cerulein tests (SCT). RESULTS Most of the patients with necrosectomy had an abnormal exocrine pancreati…
ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT FOR ACUTE BILIARY PANCREATITIS
1999
Worldwide, gallstones are the most common cause of acute pancreatitis, a disorder that ranges in severity from mild to life-threatening. How gallstones cause pancreatitis is hotly debated, as is the need for endoscopic decompression of the bile duct in sick patients. This article is a critical analysis of the existing data.
Biliary Pancreatitis: Endoscopic Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques
1987
Acute pancreatitis constitutes one of the most hazardous emergencies in clinical gastroenterology. Although the diagnosis “biliary pancreatitis” is often used in clinical practice for patients presenting with concrements in the biliary tree or impacted in the papillary orifice [17, 32], the common phrase “biliary pancreatitis” has not so far been exactly defined. Patients with cholecystolithiasis may be included in this group, as well as patients with dysfunction of the sphincter of Oddi. Some authors have reported that juxtapapillary diverticula increase the risk for development of biliary pancreatitis [28].