RT Book, Section
A1 Clancy, Thomas E.
A1 Ashley, Stanley W.
A2 Zinner, Michael J.
A2 Ashley, Stanley W.
SR Print(0)
ID 57019196
T1 Chapter 54. Management of Acute Pancreatitis
T2 Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163388-8
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57019196
RD 2024/04/24
AB Acute  pancreatitis  includes  a  wide  spectrum  of  disease,  from  mild  self-limiting  symptoms  to  a  fulminant  process  with  multiple  organ  failure  and  high  mortality.  Of  the  approximately  185,000  patients  who  develop  acute  pancreatitis  each  year  in  the  United  States,  most  experience  relatively  minor  episodes  of  disease  characterized  by  mild  parenchymal  edema  without  distant  organ  dysfunction  and  an  uneventful  recovery.1  Severe  episodes,  however,  may  involve  a  progression  to  extensive  pancreatic  necrosis,  development  of  the  systemic  inflammatory  response  syndrome  (SIRS),  multiorgan  failure,  rapid  clinical  deterioration,  and  even  death.2,3  Although  the  overall  mortality  rate  with  acute  pancreatitis  is  2–10%,  this  is  primarily  related  to  the  10–30%  of  patients  with  severe  disease  characterized  by  pancreatic  and  peripancreatic  necrosis.