Pancreatitis

Study results from Florida State University, Medical Department update understanding of pancreatitis

Published in Drug Week, May 9th, 2008

"Interventional therapy in necrotizing pancreatitis is evolving. Efforts to modify or prevent pancreatic necrosis by intra-arterial infusion of antibiotics and antiproteases have been described," investigators in the United States report.

"Moreover, traditional approaches to the surgical management of infected pancreatic necrosis are being challenged by a host of endoscopic and percutaneous techniques. While these approaches are potentially valuable additions to interventional therapy in necrotizing pancreatitis, few evidence-based studies are available to support their supplanting more traditional approaches at this time," wrote E.L. Bradley and colleagues, Florida...

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Source: Drug Week (2008-05-09)

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