title: Pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. An underreported disease whose severity is often unappreciated.
abstract: We describe our experience between 1985 and 1989 with 24 patients with clinically significant pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. The resulting pancreatitis was categorized into three groups, all requiring hospitalization: (1) mild pancreatitis (n = 12); (2) moderate pancreatitis requiring aggressive evaluation, treatment, and follow-up (n = 6); and (3) severe pancreatitis requiring surgical therapy (n = 6). The average length of hospitalization for the entire group was 12.8 days. Surgical intervention was required in 5 patients, and 3 patients died of acute necrotizing pancreatitis with sepsis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, and intractable hemodynamic failure. Our experience with this entity suggests that this form of pancreatitis includes severe and even lethal outcomes. It was associated with a mortality of 13%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stanten
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Frey
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors