Acute Pancreatitis. Diagnosis And Treatment eBook

Document from the year 2021 in the subject Medicine - Surgery, Accident Medicine, grade: 3.5, , language: English, abstract: This retrospective study was performed to assess the epidemiological characteristics of acute pancreatitis in patients treated at a Clinic in Kosovo. Determining the anatomopathological form of acute pancreatitis and evaluating the methods applied for its diagnosis and treatment was one of the basic goals of this study. Another objective of this study was to detect eventual deficiencies in the diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis. The retrospective analysis of the medical documentation of 29 patients who were hospitalized, diagnosed and treated due to acute pancreatitis and its complications, in the departments of Abdominal Surgery at the University Clinical Center in Prishtina, in the period January 2001-December 2002. Due to acute pancreatitis and its complications, 29 patients were treated. Of these, 17 were male (58.6%) and 12 were female (41.4%). Of the 24 cases with acute pancreatitis, 23 of them (95.8%) were cases with acute edematous pancreatitis and 1 patient (4.2%) with acute necrotic pancreatitis. Due to complications, 6 patients (20.7%) were treated. Of these, 5 cases were treated due to pancreatic pseudocyst and 1 case due to acute necrotic pancreatitis. In all cases, from the first day of hospitalization, antibiotics were applied. All cases with complications are treated surgically. Keywords: acute pancreatitis, pancreatic necrosis, edematous pancreatitis