Pancreatitis is a disease of the twenty-first century

The article presents a literature review of the surgical pathology of acute pancreatitis, which takes the lead ahead of acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis and accounts for 10-12% of the surgical pathology of the abdominal zone. In the morbidity structure, 85% are mild forms of acute pancreatitis, however, 15% of patients with severe forms of the disease make the main contribution to the percentage of complications and death. And if the total mortality rate is approximately 7%, then in severe form this figure increases to 30%, and with the development of purulent-septic complications it is 60-80%. A review of the literature on acute pancreatitis indicates a large number of unresolved issues regarding pathogenesis, early diagnosis and prediction of the development of a severe form of the disease, strategies for the use of membrane protectors, surgical treatment of patients with sterile necrosis and the stage of infection, which necessitates the continuation of research in this area.