[TRANSPAPILLARY INTERVENTIONS FOR AN ACUTE PANCREATITIS]

Experience of the endoscopic retrograde pancreatocholangiography performance in emergency (in 4-6 h after admittance to hospital) in 513 patients with suggestion for biliary acute pancreatitis (AP) presence was adduced. In 451 (87.9%) patients preliminary diagnosis was confirmed: in 402 (89.1%)--calculous cholecystitis, complicated by choledocholithiasis, was revealed, in 49 (10.9%)--residual choledocholithiasis. Establishment of biliary genesis of an AP assumes performance of endoscopic papillosphincterotomy and choledocholithextraction. Biliary causes of an AP were excluded in 62 (12.1%) patients, in 34 (54.8%) of them characteristic changes in duodenum were revealed, in 13 (21.0%)--destructive changes of pancreatic ductal system. While diagnosis of an AP of nonbiliary origin a conservative tactics of treatment was selected.