The surgical management of pancreatic pseudocysts – outcomes on a group of seven patients

Abstract

The pancreatic pseudocyst represents the main complication that occurred 3 to 6 weeks after an outbreak of acute or chronic pancreatitis represented by a collection containing pancreatic enzymes without their own epithelial wall. In the present paper, we present a study performed on 7 patients admitted to the Surgical Department of Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital who were diagnosed with pancreatic pseudocyst between 2016 and 2020, and the drainage of the miniinvasive pancreatic pseudocyst by an incision in the right lumbar area, in the case of a 53-year-old patient known to have a history of multiple cardiac defects, the pancreatic pseudocyst being discovered approximately 6 months before, for which the patient underwent conservative treatment, and who had 5 resuscitated cardio-respiratory arrests throughout the evolution.

Keywords

• acute pancreatitis
• pancreatic pseudocysts
• percutaneous drainage
• laparoscopy