Hereditary pancreatitis in childhood: course of disease and complications.

Background: Hereditary pancreatitis is rare. Pain therapy for juvenile symptom onset, child development and the risk of pancreatic carcinoma in adulthood must be considered.

Patients, Material And Methods: Data from a cohort of 11 patients with disease onset in childhood (< 16 years) were analyzed retrospectively.

[Austrian benchmarking project for ERCP: a 10-year report].

The quality assurance program "Benchmarking ERCP", that his been under the patronage of the ÖGGH for ten years (with a one-year break in 2008), in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Statistics University Linz, has followed patient safety measures and successes while undergoing ERCP in Austria. A total of 28 319 examinations were registered. The participating centers all had different ERCP frequency and variable expertise, thereby enabling them to recognise individual problems in terms of success, cannulation and complication rates (3.

Therapeutic step-up strategy for management of hereditary pancreatitis in children.

Background/purpose: Various different regimes exist for the treatment of hereditary pancreatitis in childhood. Here, we propose a therapeutic pathway with emphasis on endoscopic and surgical procedures.

Methods: From 2006 to 2013, 12 patients with a diagnosis of hereditary pancreatitis were prospectively included in a therapeutic step-up schema.