Contents


Preface

The book "Pancreatitis" is devoted to the actual and, in some cases, controversial and unresolved problems associated with acute and chronic pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. Along with an increase in the number of patients with acute pancreatitis in recent years, there has been an increase in the incidence of its destructive forms. Despite the progress in improving the diagnostics of the disease, pathogenetically substantiated intensive therapy, antibiotic therapy, and minimally invasive surgical treatment, mortality in acute pancreatitis has remained at the same level over the past few decades. The most important objective in improving treatment results in acute pancreatitis is the use of standardized approaches to diagnostics and treatment of various forms of the disease and its complications, taking into account the modern, generally accepted international classification. Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by inflammation of the pancreas, which is replaced by fibrosis and progressing pancreatic tissue destruction. The three main clinical signs of chronic pancreatitis are pain, maldigestion, and diabetes. Although the disease is still difficult to treat, the development of new approaches has reduced the severity of clinical manifestations and improved the life quality of patients with chronic pancreatitis. This book will be of interest to

**Dmitry Victorovich Garbuzenko**

Department of Faculty Surgery, South Ural State Medical University,

Professor,

Chelyabinsk, Russia

anyone who considers pancreatology their specialty.
