Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a potentially life-threatening common gastrointestinal
disorder with increasing incidence around the globe. Although the majority of cases will take …

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a potentially life-threatening disease with a wide spectrum of
severity. The overall mortality of AP is approximately 5%. According to the revised Atlanta …

Acute pancreatitis can be a potentially life threatening condition that requires a combination
of sophisticated medical and interventional skills to diagnose, determine the aetiology and …

Acute pancreatitis (AP) constitutes the majority of cases requiring hospital admission in
gastroenterology. We are yet to know many things about its pathophysiology which is a …

This review highlights advances in acute pancreatitis (AP) made in the past year. We focus
on clinical aspects of AP-severe disease especially-and risk stratification tools to guide the …

Acute pancreatitis (AP), defined as the acute nonbacterial inflammatory condition of the
pancreas, is derived from the early activation of digestive enzymes found inside the acinar …

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common and potentially lethal acute inflammatory process.
Approximately 10–20% of patients develop a severe course and suffer systemic …

Objective Atlanta classification divides patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) into mild and
severe disease. A 4-category severity classification has been proposed based on the …

Background Acute pancreatitis has a broad clinical spectrum, from mild illness to multiple
organ failure and death. Prognostic scores have been developed or adapted to predict …

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a disease spectrum ranging from mild to severe with an
unpredictable natural course. Majority of cases (80%) are mild and self-limiting. However …