title: [Acute necroticohemorrhagic pancreatitis. Why, when and how to drain? Apropos of 106 cases].
abstract: The heavy toll of necrotizing acute pancreatitis led the authors to start developing a new method of treatment in experimental and clinical conditions in 1979. This was aimed on one hand at creating a large channel for the centrifugal drainage of pancreatic or peri-pancreatic foci, and on the other hand at maintaining this draining channel during the first 5 weeks of acute evolution of the acute necrotizing pancreatitis in order to allow the permanent evacuation of purulent or necrotic fragments. From 1979 to 1989, 106 patients were treated with this method, ie. 71 men and 35 women with an average age of 47.9 years. 73 (74%) of these patients had been referred by other hospitals, and 64 only had been initially operated at Saint-Antoine hospital. All patients presented with extensive peripancreatic necrosis. The average Ranson score was 4.8 (not taking the fluid sequestration during the first few hours into account). Visceral failure was observed in 76% of the patients before surgery. The necrosis of the pancreatic gland was focal in 6 cases, extensive in 47 cases and total or subtotal in 25 cases. Out of the 70 CT studies, 64 showed a Ranson grade of E. All patients received enteral feeding on a jejunal site postoperatively. The mortality rate was 16%. The stay of the surviving patients in the intensive care unit averaged 50 days. 29 patients (27%) were reoperated on for complications or insufficient drainage.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parc
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frileux
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tiret
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Honiger
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hannoun
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nordlinger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Levy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation
vernacular_title: Les pancréatites aiguës nécrotico-hémorragiques. Pourquoi, quand et comment les drainer? A propos de 106 cas.