2. Issues
• Diagnosis
• Natural course of the disease
• Treatment – Medical or Surgery or Endotherapy
• Surgery – Timing of Surgery
Type of Surgery
• Recurrence of pain
3. Chronic Pancreatitis
Pathology : Progressive loss of exocrine & endocrine
function. In late stage pancreas is enlarged
& hard
Ductal change – areas of stricture & dilatation
Calcification – Intraductal & parenchymal
8. Pain Characteristics of Chronic Pancreatitis
Type of Pain
Type A - Intermittent ,short duration, several episodes in a year
Type B - Continuous chronic pain
Pseudocyst
Obstructive pathology
9. Assessment: Pain severity
The need
Selection of patients for surgery
‘Objective’ documentation of pain relief
Assessment of treatment efficacy
Comparison of data
The “Tools”
Pain scoring systems
‘Quality of life’ assessment
Function scales
Symptom scales
Bloechle C et al, Pancreas 1995, Izbicki JR et al, Ann Surg 1998
10. Pain scoring systems
Parameters assessed
• Intensity
• Visual analog scale
• Pain medication
• Narcotic addiction
• Frequency
• Trials: > 1 episode per month
• Duration
• Most surgical series: > 1 year
• Consequences
• absence from work
• number of hospitalizations
Rai RR et al, Gastroenterol Jap 1988; Bloechle C et al, Pancreas 1995
11. The Izbicki pain score
A validated pain score specifically designed for
chronic pancreatitis . It consists of four questions regarding
• Frequency of pain
• Intensity of pain (VAS score)
• Use of analgesics
• Disease-related inability to work
Based on these question a pain score can be calculated
ranging from 0 (no pain) to 100 (severe, debilitating pain).
12. • Ductal Dilatation
• Parenchymal Hypertension
• Parenchymal Ischaemia
• Neurohumoral inflammation
• Obstruction of luminal structures
Aetiology of Pain in CP
13. Investigation - Exocrine function test
Direct Test Invasive
Secretin – Cerulein Test
Lundh Test
Fecal Test
• Fecal Chymotrypsin test
• Fecal Elastase 1 Test
Indirect Test
• 24 hours Stool weight and Fecal fat estimation
• Pancreolauryl Test and PABA test
• Breath Test – 13 C labeled substrate
21. Treatment
Medical management –
Nutrition
Enzyme replacement
Insulin
Analgesics
Indication of surgery
1. Intractable pain
2. Complication – Obstruction – CBD, D2
Vascular involvement
Panc. Cyst
Presence of mass
Pancreatic Ascites
22. Surgery for Chronic Pancreatitis
a timeline
Date Author Procedure
1946 Clagget Total Pancreatectomy
Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy
1950 Richman and Colp Gastrectomy
1954 Duval Caudal pancreaticojejunostomy
1955 Bowers Choledochojejunostomy
1956 Doubilet and Mulholland Sphincterotomy
1958 Puestow and Gillesby Lateral pancreaticojejunostomy
1965 Fry and Child 95% Distal Pancreatectomy
1978 Traverso and Longmire Pylorus-preserving “Whipple”
1987 Frey and Smith Head resection and drainage
1989 Beger et al Duodenum-preserving resection
26. Surgery for Chronic pancreatitis
A. Drainage procedure
Longitudinal side to side Roux-en-Y pancreatojejunostomy
(Modified Peustow or Partington Rochelle)
B. Resection Procedure
1.Begers operation
2.Whipple’s Pancreatoduodenectomy
3.Distal pancreatectomy
C. Combined procedure
Frey’s operation
Izbicki’s operation
Non operative Methods
Endoscopic Therapy
Caeliac ganglion block