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Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis (eBook)

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2014 | 2015
XI, 236 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4939-0971-1 (ISBN)
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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.


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.

Part I.  Definitions of Severe and Necrotizing Pancreatitis Chapter 1. Revised Atlanta Classification of Acute PancreatitisRupjyoti Talukdar and Santhi Swaroop Vege Chapter 2. Organ Failure and Acute PancreatitisColin D. Johnson Chapter 3. Sterile and Infected Pancreatic NecrosisElham 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 PredictorsRawad Mounzer and Georgios I. Papachristou  Chapter 6. Imaging PredictorsThomas L. Bollen Chapter 7. Predictive Scoring Systems in Acute PancreatitisKavya M. Reddy and Bechien U. Wu Part III. Medical Management of Severe and Necrotizing Acute Pancreatitis Chapter 8. Fluid Resuscitation in Acute PancreatitisKartik Sampath and Timothy B. Gardner Chapter 9. Antibiotic Therapy  Wesley Leung and Andres Gelrud  Chapter 10. Nutrition in Severe Acute PancreatitisKishore Vipperla and Stephen J. O’Keefe Chapter 11. Pharmacologic TherapyWalter G. Park Part IV.  Interventional Management of Severe and Necrotizing Acute Pancreatitis  Chapter 12. Management of Ductal LeaksMichael C. Larsen and Richard Kozarek Chapter 13. Endoscopic Management of Severe Gallstone PancreatitisTakao Itoi and Peter V. Draganov Chapter 14. Direct Endoscopic NecrosectomyTodd H. Baron Chapter 15. Retroperitoneoscopic Approaches for Infected Necrotizing PancreatitisJanneke van Grinsven, Marc G. Besselink, Olaf .J. Bakker, Sandra van Brunschot, Marja A. Boermeester, and Hjalmar C. van Santvoort Chapter 16. Surgical ApproachesRoshni Venugopal, Kristin Pokorney-Colling, and Greg J. Beilman Chapter 17. Interventions for Necrotizing Pancreatitis: A Multidisciplinary ApproachMartin L Freeman, Guru Trikudanathan, Mustafa Arain, Greg J. Beilman, ShawnMallery, and Rajeev Attam 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.9.2014
Zusatzinfo XI, 236 p. 82 illus., 30 illus. in color.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Medizinische Fachgebiete Chirurgie Viszeralchirurgie
Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Gastroenterologie
Medizinische Fachgebiete Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren Radiologie
Schlagworte Ductal Disruptions • Endoscopic Necrosectomy • fluid resuscitation • Pancreatic Necrosis • Retroperitonoscopic Approaches
ISBN-10 1-4939-0971-1 / 1493909711
ISBN-13 978-1-4939-0971-1 / 9781493909711
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