Early diagnosis of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy / 临床肝胆病杂志

ABSTRACT

Acute pancreatitis in pregnancy is one of the rare and serious complications in pregnancy and has sudden onset, rapid disease progression, and difficulty in diagnosis, and thus it greatly threatens the health of mother and infant. Accurate judgement of the etiology of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy and confirmed diagnosis as early as possible are the key to successful clinical treatment. This article summarizes the recent advances in the early diagnosis of this disease from the aspects of etiology of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy, methods for early diagnosis and examination, and differential diagnosis of this disease from other diseases.