Experiences with the treatment of 42 patients with acute biliary pancreatitis

Introduction: Acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP) is one of the most severe complications of the biliary stone disease. Its contemporary management is early endoscopic papillotomy followed by stone extraction if necessary, and the best conservative treatment of pancreatitis. Patients: During the last five years we have treated 42 patients (mean age: 64.5 /21–96/ years) with ABP. Thirty-seven pts had stones in the gallbladder, four had previous cholecystectomy and in one patient the gallbladder was stonefree. The severity of the pancreatitis was asessed by a modified Ranson score, and the majority of pts (26/42, 61.…