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A retrospective study was undertaken in two groups of patients admitted due to acute pancreatitis in order to obtain information of the relative importance of the main aetiological factors. The first group, consisting of 97 patients, was admitted during 1967--68; the second group of 163 patients during 1977--78. Biliary disease was the main causative factor (53.4%) in the first group of patients with a first-attack of pancreatitis, and alcoholism accounted for only 15.9%. In the second group, ten years later, alcoholism assumed a leading role accounting for 57.5% of the first attack victims as compared to biliary disease with 22.5%. In the total material alcoholism was the aetiological factor in 80.8% of patients with relapsing acute pancreatitis. The absolute and proportional increase of alcohol-induced pancreatitis might be a consequence of a 2.5 fold rise of the consumption of alcohol in Finland during the period of study. Acute alcoholic pancreatitis affected mostly young men and showed a mortality of 7.2% as compared to that of biliary pancreatitis with 13.5% mortality.
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PMID:Changing aetiology of acute pancreatitis. 709 34

A leading cause of biliary tract disease and pancreatitis worldwide is parasitic disease. In the United States, increased global travel and the AIDS epidemic has led to a rise in the frequency of parasitic disease. Biliary disease and pancreatic disease secondary to parasitic infestation is relatively new in this country, with the first case being described in 1977. These diseases are no longer the exclusive realm of infectious disease specialists and require general practitioners and gastroenterologists to be well versed in the spectrum of parasitic pancreatic and biliary disease.
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PMID:Parasitic causes of pancreatic and biliary tract disease: a growing concern in a highly mobile population. 2005 32

Biliary disease is a common cause of acute pancreatitis. Risk stratification for persistent pancreatobiliary obstruction is important for selecting a treatment approach. Most common bile duct stones are extracted with standard endoscopic techniques. However, prior foregut surgery, stones with extreme morphologic attributes, and at difficult positions within the biliary system are technically challenging and predict a need for advanced biliary endoscopic techniques. Surgical common bile duct exploration at the time of cholecystectomy is appropriate in centers with experience. We outline the options and approach for the clinician to successfully identify and manage patients with symptomatic choledocholithiasis with or without biliary pancreatitis.
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PMID:Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography for the Management of Common Bile Duct Stones and Gallstone Pancreatitis. 2643 96