Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

Surgical Complication of Acute Pancreatitis.

Arun S. Patil, Shubham Gupta, Shekhar Jadhav, Jasmine Agarwal

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">Acute pancreatitis, since long, has been an important cause of<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">morbidity and mortality in our country and elsewhere. With an increasing<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">incidence in alcoholism and biliary diseases, the major etiological factors,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">the incidence of Acute pancreatitis is expected to increase. Acute<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">pancreatitis (AP) is a common acute medical condition requiring emergent<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">care. Yet, no prevalence data are available from India. Gallstones and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">alcohol are the most common causes of AP, gallstones being about twice as<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-language:MR">common as alcohol in our population. </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-language:MR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>