Acute pancreatitis.

Abstract:

PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review advances over the last year in the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute pancreatitis. RECENT FINDINGS:Obesity is an independent risk factor for severity in acute pancreatitis, and heavy alcohol consumption for the development of necrosis in severe acute pancreatitis. Biochemical markers have been further tested, including carbohydrate-deficient transferrin for the diagnosis of alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis, urinary trypsinogen-2 as a diagnostic marker for acute pancreatitis, and interleukin-6 and procalcitonin as markers of disease severity. A new, simple stratification system, the 'panc 3 score', has been described. There are conflicting data on the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in acute necrotizing pancreatitis, and on the chemoprevention of postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis. Enteral feeding is established as standard practice early in the management of acute pancreatitis of all aetiologies; probiotics and other compounds may also play a role. SUMMARY:Over the last year, there have been further innovations in the risk stratification and management of acute pancreatitis. Unresolved issues include chemoprevention of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-induced acute pancreatitis, the indications for antibiotic prophylaxis in severe acute pancreatitis and nutritional supplementation with probiotics and synbiotics.

journal_name

Curr Opin Crit Care

authors

Skipworth JR,Pereira SP

doi

10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282f6a3f9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-04-01 00:00:00

pages

172-8

issue

2

eissn

1070-5295

issn

1531-7072

pii

00075198-200804000-00010

journal_volume

14

pub_type

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