Acute pancreatitis is the third most common gastrointestinal condition associated with hospitalization in the United States and is the primary diagnosis in hundreds of thousands of emergency ...

Pancreas with pancreatitis in human body The inappropriate use of antibiotics as prophylaxis and treatment in acute pancreatitis is common, highlighting the efforts required for antibiotic stewardship ...

The 2012 Revised Atlanta Classification and the determinant-based classifications for acute pancreatitis aim to define the different local and systemic complications of this disease and predict ...

The management of necrotizing pancreatitis has undergone a paradigm shift toward minimally invasive techniques for necrosectomy, obviating the need for open necrosectomy in most cases. There is ...

Acute pancreatitis is the most common gastrointestinal indication for hospital admission, and infected pancreatic and/or extrapancreatic necrosis is a potentially lethal complication. Current standard ...

In the new study, researchers found high levels of dendritic cells in the pancreas can protect the organ from acute pancreatitis damage while low levels of dendritic cells in the pancreas are ...

IT is now generally accepted that there are two types of acute pancreatitis: acute pancreatic edema, and acute pancreatic necrosis. Repeated attacks of acute pancreatitis are classified as chronic ...

A new prediction model for infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) offers a groundbreaking approach to improving patient outcomes. Developed by a team of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Initial management for acute pancreatitis should include “moderately aggressive” fluid resuscitation. Monitoring ...

CASUAL observations of post-mortem material have suggested an increased frequency of necrosis and other lesions in the pancreas and adjacent tissues in patients receiving certain adrenocortical ...

If a patient presents with nausea and epigastric pain, the cause may well be acute pancreatitis. Here is how the condition is diagnosed and treated. Pancreatitis has a unique pathologic mechanism ...

Ratul Som’s family had almost given hope after two hospitals where the patient went said that his condition was unrecoverable. KOLKATA: Ratul Som’s family had almost given hope after two hospitals ...