Consequences of acute pancreatitis and development of pseudocyst of the pancreas

Objectives: To improve the immediate results of treatment of patients with pancreatic pseudocysts.Materials and methods: The article presents the results of treatment of 15 patients with pseudocyst pancreas, 4 of them patients were operated on. The age of patients was from 30 to 70 years. The average hospital stay was 14 bunk days.Results: Acute pancreatitis is a severe pathology and causes great interest in abdominal surgery. The cause of pancreatic pseudocyst is a previous acute pancreatitis due to alcohol abuse and an alimentary factor. Diagnosis is difficult to diagnose during the initial examination. Upon admission, a preliminary diagnosis of acute pancreatitis was made, and during the examination, the clinical diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocyst was established. The treatment was started with conservative measures - starvation, epigastric hypothermia, infusion therapy, except for patients with peritonitis as a result of perforation of the pseudocyst into the abdominal cavity. If you suspect suppuration, antibacterial drugs are prescribed. In parallel, conducted diagnostic activities. They included, along with standard laboratory tests and ultrasound of the abdominal organs, FGDS, CT and / or MRI with intravenous contrast enhancement.Conclusion: Conservative treatment was successfully carried out in 11 of 15 patients, as a result of which the pain syndrome regressed, clinical and biochemical blood tests were normalized.