Re: Endoscopic ultrasound vs ercp - my experience

[Guest guest]

This is just my experience with the two diagnostic tests. I had two

ERCP's done within a couple of years of each other (and both ended

with me having an acute attack of pancreatitis). Neither showed

anything relating to chronic pancreatitis. I went to the Mayo Clinic

in ville, FL last year and they performed the EUS and it showed

the areas of my pancreas that were damaged, etc. Thus the diagnosis

that I have now of CP. I was never diagnosed with CP before the EUS

was performed. AND the EUS was a much more tolerable test for me, no

acute attacks afterward.

Zoie