ABSTRACT
The article discusses experience in the examination of 109 patients with chronic calculous pancreatitis (CCP), 102 of them were treated by operation (a total of 130 operations were carried out). Calculous cholecystitis was a consequence of alcohol intake in 102 cases, and was due to other causes in 7 cases. In 71% of cases CCP was attended by the development of indirect signs of pancreatic hypertension and in 45.1% by pancreatic cysts. Operations for internal (h = 49) and external-internal (n = 27) drainage were most pathogenetically justified. The mortality after these operations was 2%. The total postoperative mortality was 6.9%, mortality in the late-term periods was 8.8%. Unfavourable late-term results were encountered in individuals who continued drinking alcohol as well as in inadequate drainage of the pancreatic duct system.
Subject(s)
Pancreatitis/surgery , Adolescent , Adult , Alcoholism/complications , Calculi/complications , Chronic Disease , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Pancreatic Diseases/complications , Pancreatitis/etiology , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Presented are the results of comprehensive CNS examinations in 53 alcoholics with chronic pancreatitis. Related psychopathological and neurological syndromes are specified. Hepatopancreatoduodenal and CNS abnormalities were found directly correlated. The addition of pancreatitis to alcoholism leads to development of encephalomyelopolyradiculoneurotic syndrome.
