title: Operative timing and indications for patients with severe acute pancreatitis: report of 172 cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the operative timing and indications for severe acute pancreatitis SAP.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data collected from 172 patients with SAP treated in our hospital since 1980 were analyzed retrospectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the 94 patients who had undergone early operation before June 1992, 57 (62.8%) healed 35 (37.2%) died and 16 (17.0%) had no postoperative complications. In the 78 patients who had been treated after July 1992 according to the principle of "individualization" 66 (84.6%) healed 12 (15.4%) died and 37 (47.4%) had no postoperative complications. In the 78 patients 32 received non-operative treatment but 30 (93.8%) cured 12 early operation but 7(58.3%) cured 18 late operation but 13 (72.2%) cured and 16 selected time operation but all cured.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  IT is concluded that individualized therapy is effective and reasonable for treating SAP. The indications for early late and selected time operation should be emphasized.
authors: Department of General Surgery, First Clinical Hospital Harbin Medical University Harbin 150001 China. sunbei70@163.net
authors: Bei
authors: B
authors: Sun
authors: Hong-Chi
authors: HC
authors: Jiang
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Xun
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors