[The effect of certain factors on the prognosis of the course of acute pancreatitis].
An analysis of treatment of 2740 patients with acute destructive pancreatitis from 1973 up to the present has been performed together with that of relevant published literature. Different factors of diagnosis and those of treatment of acute pancreatitis were found to influence the prognosis of the illness in some way or other. It has been noted that delayed surgery permit obtaining better results. Data are presented on long-term results of medical and surgical treatment of those patients who had become ill with necrotic forms of acute pancreatitis.
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D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors