Acute Pancreatitis and Its Complications – Current Diagnostics and Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Gastroenterology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: gastrointestinal surgery; oncological surgery; vascular surgery; gastroenterology; angiology; oncology; nutritional status; nutrition
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Dear Colleagues,
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is defined as acute inflammation of the pancreas leading to potential local or systemic complications. According to the 2012 revision of the Atlanta Classification, AP is categorized into mild AP (MAP), moderately severe AP (MSAP), and severe AP (SAP). Assessment of AP severity is crucial for appropriate management, and various scores are used to assess the AP severity.
In 5–10% patients, pancreatic and/or peripancreatic necrosis is observed. Pancreatic and peripancreatic necrosis may remain solid or liquefy, remain sterile or become infected, persist, or disappear over time.
Atlanta classification has distinguished acute peripancreatic fluid collection (APFC), pancreatic pseudocyst (PPC), acute necrotic collection (ANC), and walled-off necrosis (WON). Recently, a significant evolution of the management in patients with AP complications, including PPC and WON, has been observed. The older surgical methods of treatment have been replaced by less invasive percutaneous radiological and endoscopic approaches. This Special Issue on “Acute Pancreatitis and Its Complications – Current Diagnostics and Management” will cover all aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic methods used in AP patients. I invite original research and review papers regarding various laboratory tests and radiological investigations, prognostic scores, and surgical and less invasive techniques used in AP patients.
Dr. Beata Jabłońska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acute pancreatitis
- pancreas
- pancreatic and peripancreatic necrosis
- management
- less invasive percutaneous radiological and endoscopic approaches
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