[Diagnostic and therapeutic tactics in various forms of acute pancreatitis]

Course of the different forms of acute pancreatitis was studied in 234 patients. The therapeutico-tactical approach was individualized on the basis of considering the form of pancreatitis, its etiology, and four groups of the patients were distinguished. Conservative therapy with the wide use of therapeutic endoscopy permits in the majority of cases to achieve an abortive course of the disease. The developed programme for diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis contributed to decrease in the incidence of purulent-necrotic complications in generalized forms of pancreatitis.