[The relationship of the treatment results in acute pancreatitis to the correctness of the diagnosis of the stages of the disease].

An analysis of 77 case histories of people who died from destructive pancreatitis is presented. Medico-tactical errors and complications were found out. A differentiated approach to treatment of acute pancreatitis was shown to be necessary depending on the stage of the disease. Preference is given to complex conservative therapy with the closed-type little-invasive operations. The total amount of patients with acute pancreatitis for the period under analysis is 1644. Postoperative lethality was 46%, total lethality--4.7%.