New Pancreatitis Treatment-Mayo Clinic

Your pancreas is an organ that does two things: it secretes enzymes that help you digest food, and it creates insulin to regulate blood sugar. But sometimes gall stones, medications or alcohol can cause pancreatitis.

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[BytomGirl]

Just a couple of days ago I had a endoscopic procedure to remove gall stones from bile tract, 8 of them, one very large. some earlier were lodged in pancreas causing pancratitis so I was on IV 4 days with no food or water to clear up the inflamation. I still have stones in gall bladder and doctors wanted to remove the whole gallblader. Is the a way to get rid of them in but leave gallbladder intact?

My hospital doesn't remove the stones from gallbladder endoscopically :-(

[mayoclinic]

@BytomGirl Dr. Todd Baron, Page 2 we recommend it be removed. In some patients we recommend leaving the gallbladder in with the stones, but this is also uncommon and generally only done in patients with other diseases so severe that it is more dangerous to do anything but wait.

[mayoclinic]

@BytomGirl Dr. Todd Baron, Page 1There are ways to remove the gallstones from the gallbladder but it is so much more difficult than when they are in the bile duct - in fact nearly impossible, most centers in the world don't even try - we do in very rare circumstances. Since laparoscopic cholecystectomy (surgical removal) has become so easy as well as the fact that gallstones can reform within the gallbladder and the gallbladder is usually diseased (chronic inflammation) and poorly functioning,

[gino924]

can this procedure be done in children. my daughter its 12 yrs old but she its almost an adult size . she weights 71.4 k and her height its 5 f 5 inch. she needs a cyst drainage. she has been in a hospital for almost 11 weeks but now the cyst got infected and the docs have put a plastic stent in her pancreatic duct to drain it. hope it does not clog if it does. theyll put a thicket one or do a radiology drainage or this procedure please some body help!!!!

[mayoclinic]

The procedure can be done in children, if indicated. We would need to have more information to assess whether the procedure we describe is the correct thing for your daughter.

[panic1844]

@triggert531 So pretty much people that have chronic pancreatitis are screwed? I think I have alcoholic pancreatitis, if I knew or was suspicious I would of quit drinking 4 yrs ago...=/

[panic1844]

@mayoclinic Hi, I hope u can reply to my question. I have not been diagnosed with pancreatitis but a friend of mine has it and after comparing pain I am like 99.999% sure I have it. I have had Endoscopies and catscans but nothing shows up. I recently had my GB out and thats when my pain got worse. I no longer have Insurance, my questiomn to u is how can I slow it down??, I'm in the process of getting Insurance for further testing. And yes I have stopped drinking since my friend told me to stop.

[sopbabe]

I have suffered from several attacks of Acute Pancreatitis with no known cause. I am currently under medication for GERD and have had 4 RF ablations to eradicate Barrett's Esophagus. I have had several tests to rule out Gall Bladder disease. The only test I have had that proved to be odd was an MRICP that showed my bile duct shown to be serated. Is this procedure a good idea for my case? I do not want to keep ending up hospitalized due to this horrible condition!

[BytomGirl]

@mayoclinic Thank you Doctor for the reply. Will I be able to digest the fatty food (good fats, I don;t eat the bad) and dring wine? I had a concern with the bile being released from the liver directly into stomach as I undestand it is more acidic than the bile stored in gall bladder, I heard of instances where it can do demage to the colon. How often does that happen? In any case, I guess I do;t have a choice but to remove it. What is your opinion on gall bladder cleanse?

[HAYRIPITIR1]

@BytomGirl what was your  symtoms

[padude64]

@VicCastalucci Gatroenterologist

[koolpana]

@zacman76 godbless you man