Background Japanese (JPN) guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis were
published in 2006. The severity assessment criteria for acute pancreatitis were later revised …

Introduction: The following is a summary of the official guidelines of the Italian Association
for the Study of the Pancreas regarding the medical, endoscopic and surgical management …

Abstract This Position Paper contains clinically oriented guidelines by the Italian Association
for the Study of the Pancreas (AISP) for the diagnosis and treatment of severe acute …

Background Acute pancreatitis is a common and potentially lethal disease with increasing
incidence. Severe cases are characterised by high mortality, and despite improvements in …

Background Taking together the recent dramatic changes of the revised Atlanta
classification and evidence newly obtained such as the role of step‐up approach for …

AIM: To study secretion patterns of pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines, and activation of
various cellular subsets of leukocytes in peripheral blood. METHODS: We have conducted a …

Pancreatic fluid collections (PFC), including pancreatic pseudocysts and walled-off
pancreatic necrosis, are a known complication of severe acute pancreatitis. A majority of the …

The advent of computed tomographic scan with its wide use in the evaluation of acute
pancreatitis has opened up a new topic in pancreatology ie fluid collections. Fluid …

Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) starts as a local inflammation of pancreatic tissue that
induces the development of multiple extrapancreatic organs dysfunction; however, the …

When a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis (AP) is made, fundamental medical treatment
consisting of fasting, intravenous (IV) fluid replacement, and analgesics with a close …