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[Somatostatin in the treatment of pancreatic ascites]
J L Vega Sáenz1, A Cosme Jiménez, M García Bengoechea
1Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Ntra. Sra. de Aránzazu, San Sebastián.
Revista Espanola De Enfermedades Digestivas
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
We present the case of a patient with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis who developed pancreatic ascites. The analysis of ascitic fluid was diagnostic; and ERCP showed one fistula in the pancreatic head to the peritoneal cavity. The patient was treated by continuous somatostatin infusion (250 micrograms/h) for 15 days resulting in the disappearance of the ascites and avoiding the risky surgical therapy.