Gastrointestinal complications of acute pancreatitis
Neher, M.; Kümmerle, F.
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 103(36): 1400-1404
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-0472 PMID: 308003 DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1129271
Accession: 068525866
Gastrointestinal complications, such as ileus, bleeding, stenosis and fistula formation, were retrospectively analysed on 180 patients with acute pancreatitis. Paralytic ileus occurred in only a quarter of patients with acute oedematous pancreatitis and only one had bleeding from a gastric ulcer. Complications occurred in the early but also postacute stage in patients with the haemorrhagic-necrotizing form. Even with early and delayed operation and adequate treatment of most complications, renewed gastrointestinal complications were not uncommon and required re-operations.