The surgical treatment of acute necrotic pancreatitis (the experience of 37 patients)
Belchev, B.; Donev, S.; Ganchev, D.
Khirurgiia 47(6): 44-46
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0450-2167 PMID: 7474744 Document Number: 428767
The results of the operative management of 37 patients with acute necrotic pancreatitis, covering a ten-year period (1984-1993), are discussed. It is stressed that regardless of the complex conservative and subsequent precisely indicated operative management, acute necrotic pancreatitis remains an exclusively serious and problem disease, accounting for a still very high overall lethality--35.1 per cent according to the case material analyzed. In the authors opinion the most opportune time for surgical intervention is within 5-7 days after the onset of the disease.