title: Surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis and its complications. Comparative analysis of results in 91 patients.
abstract: There is a large variety of proposed conservative, invasive, endoscopic and surgical methods for treatment of chronic pancreatitis and its complications. This study presents a comparative analysis of the results from each group of patients subjected to drainage, resection, denervation and other operative techniques for a total of 91 patients with chronic pancreatitis and its complications. Drainage and resection operative techniques yield comparable results in terms of postoperative pain control 93.1% and 100%, perioperative mortality--3.17% and 5.8%, perioperative morbidity--7.9% and 11.7%, respectively. There is a significant increase in the instances of diabetes in the resection group. Right-side semilunar ganglionectomy is a good method for pain control as an accompanying procedure in the course of another main operative technique.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Marinov
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Draganov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gaydarski
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Katev
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003714:Denervation / Q000379:methods; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000150:complications; D010179:Pancreas / Q000294:innervation / Q000601:surgery*; D050500:Pancreatitis, Chronic / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011184:Postoperative Period