Chronic pancreatitis in teenaged patients treated by endoscopic intervention / 中华消化内镜杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the diagnostic and therapeutic value of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP) in teenagers with chronic pancreatitis. Methods Thirteen teenagers with chronic pancreatitis diagnosed and treated by consecutive ERCP procedures in our hospital from Feb 1997 to Feb 2002 were studied retrospectively. Results Of the 13 patients 12 had abdominal pain and 10 had history of acute/chronic pancreatitis. The ERCP findings were as follows pancreatic duct stricture and/ or dilation 12, pancreatic duct stones 7, pancreatic pseudocysts 2, pancreas divisum 3, and cholecystolithia-sis 1. Therapeutic interventions included EST 7 , basket stone extraction 6, placement of pancreatic duct stent 5 , pancreatic duct stricture bougie or balloon dilation 4, accessory papillotomy 2 and endoscopic papillary dilation 1. In the 6 - 68 months follow - up, 11 (84. 6% ) never had recurrence of pancreatitis or abdominal pain ,2 patients had no abdominal pain after the second ERCP procedure. There were procedure -related complications of hyperamylasemia in 4 cases(30. 8% ) and pancreatitis in 3 cases(23. 1% ). Conclusion ERCP has significant value in diagnosing and treating chronic pancreatitis in teenagers, but has a rather high rate of complication . It suggested that the restrict selection of indication and safe application of the procedures in pediatric patients may be expected to decrease the adverse events of ERCP.