RT Book, Section
A1 Windsor, John A.
A1 Loveday, Benjamin P. T.
A2 Zinner, Michael J.
A2 Ashley, Stanley W.
SR Print(0)
ID 57019451
T1 Chapter 55. Complications of Acute Pancreatitis (Including Pseudocysts)
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=57019451
RD 2024/04/19
AB Recovery  from  acute  pancreatitis  is  now  expected,  with  mortality  less  than  10%,  which  reflects  improvements  in  the  treatment  of  complications  and  intensive  care  management.1  A  third  of  patients  with  acute  pancreatitis  develop  complications  and  a  quarter  of  these  will  die  of  them.  These  complications  can  be  local,  regional,  or  systemic.  Most  regional  and  systemic  complications  occur  in  association  with  severe  acute  pancreatitis.  The  most  important  determinants  of  severity  in  acute  pancreatitis  are  infected  local  complications  and  multiple  organ  dysfunction.2  These  regional  and  systemic  complications  provide  the  basis  for  defining  four  categories  of  severity  (Table  55-1).3  This  chapter  will  focus  on  the  diagnosis  and  management  of  the  important  complications  of  acute  pancreatitis.