[Acute pancreatitis and pregnancy--analysis of a 10 year period of time].

Acute pancreatitis during pregnancy is rare and complicates one in 1000 to 5000 pregnancies. The commonest reasons during pregnancy are: biliary disease, congenital or acquired hypertriglyceridemia and very rarely acute pancreatitis is associated with preeclampsia-eclampsia or HELLP syndrome. We presented in the research the clinical course of 14 women who developed acute pancreatitis and were treated at the Clinic of Thoraco-abdominal and Hepato-Biliary Surgery at the University Hospital Plovdiv for a tenth year of a period. The leading etiology was biliary disease. Eleven of 14 patient were successfully treated conservatively during pregnancy; 5 of them underwent surgery after pregnancy. Only one patient underwent operative treatment during pregnancy. Although acute pancreatitis is a rare disease during pregnancy, in order to improve the prognosis and to decrease the maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality, a timely diagnosis and an adequate conservative or surgical treatment is necessary.