This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the field, with expert recommendations on prediction and management. It details the recent consensus guidelines (2012) updating the definition of pancreatitis and its complications. The text thoughtfully summarizes the current prediction models for severe acute pancreatitis, including laboratory, clinical and imaging parameters. It also highlights the relative advantages and disadvantages of several of these models. Evidenced-based guidelines into medical and surgical management of both the hospitalized and discharged patient are described, with recommendations from expert authors pertaining to various clinical situations. Finally, complications of acute pancreatitis and their management, including the use of cutting-edge minimally-invasive therapies, is discussed. Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis will serve as the fundamental source for those interested in and treating this disease, including practicing gastroenterologists, surgeons, radiologists, intensivists, hospitalists and pathologists.
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Part I. Definitions of Severe and Necrotizing Pancreatitis Chapter 1. Revised Atlanta Classification of Acute Pancreatitis Rupjyoti Talukdar and Santhi Swaroop Vege Chapter 2. Organ Failure and Acute Pancreatitis Colin D. Johnson Chapter 3. Sterile and Infected Pancreatic Necrosis Elham Afghani and Vikesh K. Singh Chapter 4. Evolving Definitions of Severe Acute Pancreatitis John A. Windsor and Maxim S. Petrov Part II. Predictors and Characteristics of Severe Acute and Necrotizing Pancreatitis Chapter 5. Clinical Predictors Rawad Mounzer and Georgios I. Papachristou Chapter 6. Imaging Predictors Thomas L. Bollen Chapter 7. Predictive Scoring Systems in Acute Pancreatitis Kavya M. Reddy and Bechien U. Wu Part III. Medical Management of Severe and Necrotizing Acute Pancreatitis Chapter 8. Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis Kartik Sampath and Timothy B. Gardner Chapter 9. Antibiotic Therapy Wesley Leung and Andres Gelrud Chapter 10. Nutrition in Severe Acute Pancreatitis Kishore Vipperla and Stephen J. O'Keefe Chapter 11. Pharmacologic Therapy Walter G. Park Part IV. Interventional Management of Severe and Necrotizing Acute Pancreatitis Chapter 12. Management of Ductal Leaks Michael C. Larsen and Richard Kozarek Chapter 13. Endoscopic Management of Severe Gallstone Pancreatitis Takao Itoi and Peter V. Draganov Chapter 14. Direct Endoscopic Necrosectomy Todd H. Baron Chapter 15. Retroperitoneoscopic Approaches for Infected Necrotizing Pancreatitis Janneke van Grinsven, Marc G. Besselink, Olaf .J. Bakker, Sandra van Brunschot, Marja A. Boermeester, and Hjalmar C. van Santvoort Chapter 16. Surgical Approaches Roshni Venugopal, Kristin Pokorney-Colling, and Greg J. Beilman Chapter 17. Interventions for Necrotizing Pancreatitis: A Multidisciplinary Approach Martin L Freeman, Guru Trikudanathan, Mustafa Arain, Greg J. Beilman, Shawn Mallery, and Rajeev Attam
