Acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP): endoscopic sphincteroctomy (ES)?

RESUMO

Acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP) has been treated by early endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) based on the reports that immediate bilio-pancreatic duct decompression is the main treatment for the satisfactory evolution of these patients. Twenty sequential patients with perfect evidence for ABP were submitted to endoscopic therapy within 24 hours following their admission. Nineteen out of twenty (95 per cent) showed complete remission of the clinical signs and laboratorial data, reinforcing the application of the endoscopic procedure as a good alternative for these patients. There neither endoscopic complications nor deaths among our cases.