title: [The indication and mode of surgery for the treatment of patients with severe acute pancreatitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the indication and mode of surgical management in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).
  
  
  METHODS
  41 patients with SAP were grouped for conservative treatment or surgical. The main procedures of surgical management were pancreatic debridement, peripancreatic and coeliac drainage, combined with peripancreatic instillation and suction alternatively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Conservative treatment was adopted in 22 patients (16 patients in grade I, 6 in grade II), among them 19 recovered, and 3 of grade II died. 19 patients underwent surgical treatment including 7 in grade I, 12 in grade II). 15 patients were cured, 4 patients of grade II died.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Timely operation is necessary for the patients with infection and complications. Surgical intervention is recommended for patients older than 60 years old. Surgery should be less traumatic, simple and prompt. Surgical or conservative treatment are chosen according to the patients' conditions. The cure rate of SAP can be improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Wumeng Hospital, Jining 012000.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome