Peculiarities of diagnostics of billiary hypertension in patients with complicated forms of chronic pancreatitis

Abstract Introduction: The morbidity of chronic pancreatitis (CP) remains at a high level. In cases of CP, prepapillary stenosis of the common bile duct (CBD) complicates the course of disease in 30–60% of patients. Aim: To improve the detection of biliary hypertension (BH) in patients with complicated forms of CP by increasing the accuracy of preoperative and intraoperative diagnostics using modern diagnostic methods. Material and methods: We analysed the results of surgical treatment of 573 patients with complicated forms of