Acute pancreatitis may be associated with both local and systemic complications. Systemic
injury manifests in the form of organ failure, which is seen in approximately 20% of all cases …

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory disease with varied severity, ranging from mild
local inflammation to severe systemic involvement resulting in substantial mortality. Early …

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis were published by the
American College of Gastroenterology in 1997 (1). These and subsequent guidelines (2–7) …

Background: All patients with organ dysfunction are currently classified as having severe
acute pancreatitis. The aim of this study was to characterize the systemic inflammatory …

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Efforts to unravel the events in the evolution of tissue damage in acute pancreatitis have
shown a number of inflammatory mediators to be involved. The pathways of damage are …

Background The diagnosis, early assessment, and management of severe acute
pancreatitis remain difficult clinical problems. This article presents the consensus obtained …

Background In a complex disease such as acute pancreatitis, correct terminology and clear
definitions are important. The clinically based Atlanta Classification was formulated in 1992 …

Objective: Acute pancreatitis represents a spectrum of disease ranging from a mild, self-
limited course requiring only brief hospitalization to a rapidly progressive, fulminant illness …

Background: The management of acute pancreatitis (AP) is still based on speculative and
unproven paradigms in many centers. Therefore, we performed an evidence-based analysis …