Pancreatitis: Current Perspectives on Diagnosis 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: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 677
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pancreatitis; acute pancreatitis; cirrhosis infections; internal medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Acute pancreatitis occurred in over 17 million individuals in 2013, making it the 35th most common disease in the world, an incidence nearly twice that of acute myocardial infarction. In the United States, the annual incidence of acute pancreatitis is estimated to be approximately 40/100,000, resulting in over 130,000 new cases per year. Historically, acute pancreatitis has been considered an adult disease, but there is currently a strong interest in pediatric cases due to the increasing incidence and growing knowledge of acute pancreatitis in children. Recently, several studies on worldwide trends in acute pancreatitis have demonstrated an increase in incidence in both adult and child populations. These trends have been linked to a greater clinical awareness, increased diagnostic testing, and the rising prevalence of obesity. Although most patients with acute pancreatitis are admitted to hospital, it has recently been revealed that a discrete number of adult and children with mild acute pancreatitis are dismissed from the emergency department through an outpatient approach to therapy. This phenomenon reduces the incidence rate registered, leading to suspicions that the disease is much more diffuse than was previously believed. In the last decade, interventional endoscopy and interventional radiology have changed the therapeutic approach to severe acute pancreatitis, and new knowledge on epidemiology and risk factors has opened up innovative avenues in the prevention of this disease. Against this background, we invite you to submit your research to the Special Issue that we are proposing on acute pancreatitis.
Dr. Alberto Maringhini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acute pancreatitis
- chronic pancreatitis
- pancreatitis
- pancreatic cancer
- eco-endoscopy
- gallstones
- biliary stones
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