Endoscopic treatment of local complications in patients with chronic pancreatitis has gained
ground over the surgical alternative in the last few years. The lower aggressiveness of …

Abstract Treatment of chronic pancreatitis has been exclusively surgical for a long time.
Recently, endoscopic therapy has become widely used as a primary therapeutic option …

Endoscopic pancreatic therapy is emerging as an exciting nonoperative alternative in the
management of chronic pancreatitis, in particular in cases where pancreatic duct obstruction …

Almost all the therapeutic efforts in the treatment of chronic pancreatitis are directed towards
pain control. Endoscopic techniques available for this purpose are endoscopic retrograde …

The last decade has seen a dramatic paradigm shift for the treatment of pancreatitis and its
related complications away from surgery to minimally invasive endoscopic approaches. In …

Endoscopic therapy is now being utilized in the setting of recurrent acute and chronic
pancreatitis. This review analyzes the current state of the art of these new applications of …

Therapeutic endoscopy in pancreatitis has included biliary or pancreatic sphincterotomy, or
both, for microlithiasis and sphincter dysfunction. Alternatively, endoscopic treatment has …

Chronic pancreatitis is a fibroinflammatory disease of the pancreas leading to varying
degrees of endocrine and exocrine dysfunction. Treatment options are generally designed …

We present an overview of endoscopic therapies for chronic pancreatitis (CP) and its
associated conditions. It is evident that endoscopy can be a definite therapy for pancreatic …

In chronic pancreatitis obstruction of the pancreatic ductal system by strictures, stones or
pseudocysts seems to play an important part in pathogenesis. Therefore, therapeutic efforts …