Necrotizing pancreatitis with infected necrotic tissue is associated with a high rate of complications and death. Standard treatment is open necrosectomy. The outcome may be improved by a minimally ...

CHICAGO – In a small, preliminary trial, patients with infected necrotizing pancreatitis (severe form of the disease involving devitalized pancreatic tissue) who received a less-invasive procedure, ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

Is open necrosectomy the best procedure for patients with severe necrotizing pancreatitis? This study compared conventional open pancreatectomy for the treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis (45 ...

Traditionally pancreatic necrosis has been treated by open necrosectomy via laparotomy, but image-guided drainage or laparoscopic drainage may also be used. With the patient under general anaesthesia, ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;7(5):463-475. Our approach for very extensive walled-off necroses, and especially those extending into the pelvis, has been to combine endoscopic necrosectomy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Immediate direct endoscopic necrosectomy significantly reduced the number of reinterventions and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Upfront endoscopic necrosectomy significantly reduced the number of reinterventions needed for treatment success ...

Our report presents a technique of necrotic tissue removal during transmural drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN) that is an alternative to the one that has already been described in the ...

To the Editor: The results from the study by van Santvoort et al. (Minimally Invasive Step-up Approach versus Maximal Necrosectomy in Patients with Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis [PANTER]) (April 22 ...