Copyright
©2008 The WJG Press and Baishideng. All rights reserved.
World J Gastroenterol. Oct 14, 2008; 14(38): 5938-5939
Published online Oct 14, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.5938
Published online Oct 14, 2008. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.5938
Pharmacopoeia of acute pancreatitis: Is the roster complete?
Maxim S Petrov, Department of Surgery, Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Author contributions: Petrov MS contributed all to this paper.
Correspondence to: Dr. Maxim S Petrov, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, PO Box 568, Nizhny Novgorod 603000, Russia. max.petrov@gmail.com
Telephone: +7-910-3833963 Fax: +7-831-4339721
Received: June 4, 2008
Revised: September 16, 2008
Accepted: September 24, 2008
Published online: October 14, 2008
Revised: September 16, 2008
Accepted: September 24, 2008
Published online: October 14, 2008
Abstract
Acute pancreatitis is one of the most common diseases in the everyday’s practise of gastroenterologists and surgeons. However, the physicians’ therapeutic armamentarium is very limited. The present letter to the editor briefly describes the recent evidence from the literature with the aim to optimize a conservative management of patients with acute pancreatitis.