title: [Surgical therapy of acute pancreatitis].
abstract: In patients with proven acute pancreatitis which is not necrotizing conservative therapy leads to a rapid pain release; after sanitation of the basic disease, complete healing is achieved. In case of a biliary pancreatitis with incarcerated gallstones in the papilla an EPT with removal of the choledochal stones is carried out within the first 12 hours after onset of incarceration symptoms; after disappearance of the symptoms of acute pancreatitis an endoscopic or minilap.-cholecystectomy is performed. Conservative therapy leads to a complete cure in patients with minor necroses without any bacterial contamination and without extensive retroperitoneal fatty tissue necroses. Surgery is indicated if a surgical acute abdomen or a sepsis develops, if patients do not respond to maximum intensive care treatment over at least 72 hours, or if organ complications, such as pulmonary/renal insufficiency, cardiocirculatory dysfunction/shock and metabolic disorders grow worse under ICU treatment. The choice procedure against bacterially contaminated necrosis is their careful removal by necrosectomy or débridement. Resectional techniques should be avoided. A third of patients needs reoperation because of extensive inflammatory processes in the retroperitoneum and around the pancreas. Treatment centres report a hospital mortality rate of clearly below 20%.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik I/Allgemeinchirurgie, Universität Ulm.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Beger
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Uhl
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Chirurgische Therapie der akuten Pankreatitis.