University Medical Center Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Conservative treatment of acute pancreatitis
- Initial consultation with the doctor
- clinical examination
- gastroenterological examination
- review of medical records
- laboratory tests:
- complete blood count
- biochemical analysis of blood
- serum amylase
- lipase
- liver function test
- electrolytes
- blood urea nitrogen (BUN)
- pancreatic function test
- creatinine
- hormonal analysis
- general urine analysis
- abdominal ultrasonography
- magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) (if indicated)
- endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) (if indicated)
- biopsy (if indicated)
- computed tomography (CT) guided needle aspiration
- histological and immunological analysis of the fluid
- nursing services
- consultation with gastroenterologist
- consultation with other related specialists
- symptomatic treatment
- cost of medicines
- explanation of an individual treatment plan
- written prescription
Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology

Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Volker Ellenrieder
Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at University Medical Center Göttingen offers inpatients and outpatients medical care for the full spectrum of diseases of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas as well as the endocrine glands. The German Cancer Society...
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University Medical Center Göttingen is one of the largest leading medical facilitates in Germany that provides medical care and also conducts significant research activities. The university hospital is functioning within the medical faculty, and both of them aim to promote health and life quality for all patients. The medical center consists of about 40 clinics and departments that offer their service in an outpatient and inpatient fashion as it has a bed count of over 1,500 beds and outpatient clinics and operating rooms where the medical staff treats over 65,000 inpatients and 225,000 outpatients and performs 4,400 outpatient operations every year. The medical facility focuses on neuroscience, cardiovascular medicine, and oncology, in terms of clinical care and scientific research, so it has specialized Heart Center Göttingen and University Cancer Center. UMG is also the national leader in the care of diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.