Diagnosis and surgical treatment of pancreonecrosis

: Actual problems of diagnosis and treatment of pancreonecrosis (PN) are discussed. Results of treatment of 154 patients hospitalized with sterile necrosis SN (n = 133) and infected PN (n = 21) were analyzed. SN became infected in 49 patients. The diagnostic methods were as follows: USE, CT, biochemical examinations of blood, urine and exudate. Percutaneous puncture contrast retroperitoneography (PPCR) was developed. It is demonstrated that modern diagnostic methods and PPCR permit one to diagnose PN, detect location, zone of retroperitoneal fat's necrosis and characterize its infection. The size of lesion of retroperitoneal fat in patients with sterile PN (n = 133) does not determine severity of the patients' condition and early lethality, but increases the risk of infection and makes worse prognosis of the disease. In laparoscopic sanation of the abdominal cavity for fermentative peritonitis, compared with laparotomic one, infection developed less rarely (10.2 and 40%, p < 0.01) and lethality decreased. Lethality in repeated mini-invasive surgeries through burso- and retroperitoneostomas performed in 34 patients with infected pancreonecrosis was 17.6% that is lower than one in repeated relaparotomies (n = 21, lethality 47.8%).