[Severe and complicated forms of chronic pancreatitis]

A total of 437 patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) were examined. The authors detected interstitial or acute, parenchymal or recurrent, hyperplastic or pseudotumorous, and cystic variants in 91 (20.8%), 218 (49.9%), 78 (17.8%), 22 (5.1%), and 28 (6.4%) patients, respectively, Severe types due to the permanent pain syndrome, substantial weight loss and overall intoxication phenomena were seen in 21.5%. Complications of chronic pancreatitis were revealed in 32.3%. Pyoseptic complications (11.2%), anicteric cholestasis (8.5%), subhepatic portal hypertension (8.0%), cholestatic jaundice (7.8%) were most common. Immunodeficiency states developed with long-term treatment of CP. A small portion (0.9%) of patients with CP developed pancreatic carcinoma. 3% of patients had deaths directly due to the active course of the disease whose causes were pyoseptic processes, pancreatic carcinoma and profuse hemorrhages from exulcerations of the duodenal postbulbar part.