ERCP in Acute Pancreatitis.
- Author:
Won Ho KIM
;
Si Young SONG
;
Kwan Sik LEE
;
Jae Bock CHUNG
;
Young Muoung MOON
;
Jin Kyung KANG
;
In Suh PARK
;
Heung Jai CHOI
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Ampulla of Vater;
Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde*;
Gallstones;
Hyperamylasemia;
Pancreatitis*
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1991;11(1):43-49
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
For many years ERCP has been contraindicated in acute pancreatitis. The injection of contrast medium. which may cause hyperamylasemia and occasionally an attack of acute pancreatitis even in normal indivisuals, was allowed only two to three weeks after subsidence of symptoms. Gallstone disease is one of the most common etilogical factors in pancreatitis and migration or impaction of gallstone in the ampulla of Vater causes pancreatitis. (continue...)
