Endoscopic Therapy Is Effective for Patients With Chronic Pancreatitis

Endoscopic therapy (ET) frequently is used to treat patients with painful chronic pancreatitis (CP), but little is known about outcomes of patients for whom ET was not successful who then underwent surgery, or outcomes after ET compared with only medical treatment. We evaluated use and long-term effectiveness of ET in a well-defined cohort of patients with CP.We analyzed data from 146 patients with CP who participated in the North American...