“…Alongside the historical therapeutic measures (such as adequate drainage, skin protection, fasting and waterelectrolyte control [3]), the current mainstays of specific treatment are pancreatic rest [3,4,5,6,7,8] and inhibition of exocrine secretion [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], to which have recently been added high-dose pancreatic extracts [15] and endoscopic treatment with stents [16].…”