Endoscopic ultrasonography and idiopathic acute pancreatitis

Microlithiasis of the gallbladder: role of endoscopic ultrasonography in patients with idiopathic acute pancreatitis.

OBJECTIVES Causes may be found in most cases of acute pancreatitis, however no etiology is found by clinical, biological and imaging investigations in 30% of these cases. Our objective was to evaluate results from endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) for diagnosis of gallbladder microlithiasis in patients with unexplained (idiopathic) acute pancreatitis. METHODS Thirty-six consecutive non-alcohol...

Role of endoscopic ultrasound in idiopathic pancreatitis

Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) is defined based on the occurrence of two or more episodes of acute pancreatitis. The initial evaluation fails to detect the cause of RAP in 10%-30% of patients, whose condition is classified as idiopathic RAP (IRAP). Idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP) is a diagnostic challenge for gastroenterologists. In view of associated morbidity and mortality, it is impo...

Endoscopic Management of Acute Pancreatitis

Determining the cause of acute pancreatitis is not usually difficult. Acute pancreatitis results most commonly from alcohol abuse or gallstone disease. These etiologies account for 60-80% of the cases. Medications, infection, metabolic, traumatic, toxins, hereditary, post-ERCP, postoperative, etc. are causative in about 10-20%. In these cases the relationship of the episode of pancreatitis to t...

Genetics in idiopathic pancreatitis and acute recurrent pancreatitis.

Acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) occurs in 10-35% of children presenting idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP) and can evolve to chronic pancreatitis (CP), especially if genetic mutations are present.

Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Related Acute Pancreatitis