Procedures

Chronic pancreatitis patients require supportive measures. The initial stage in management of patients with chronic pancreatitis should include assessment of etiology and severity of the disease because both of these factors affect the mode of treatment. Treatment is generally directed toward control of pain and correction of problems related to pancreatic exocrine and endocrine insufficiency and the correction of associated biliary tract and gastrointestinal tract pathology.

Abdominal pain is a difficult symptom to treat in chronic pancreatitis. Because pain is a subjective sensation, there is no objective parameter for measurement or means to monitor its occurrence.