Emergency Medicine: Open Access
Open Access

Abstract

Acute Pancreatitis

Angel Medina Andrade, Stephanie Serrano Collazos, Laura Medina Andrade, Grecia Ortiz, Alejandro Medina Andrade, Angeles Martinez, Brenda Ruiz, Eduardo Vidrio, Carla Hernandez, Cecilia López, Oscar Montes, Staphanny Woolf and Israel López

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a systemic immunoinflammatory response to auto-digestion of the pancreas and peripancreatic organs. Is a frequent gastrointestinal disease with an important morbi-mortality, reaching 30% in severe cases. Different studies and reviews by international groups develop multiple classification systems to assess the severity and address the correct management along time, identifying the better molecular markers, clinical outcome determinants and reaching conservative management as the angular piece in AP. In this review we present a compilation of the latest studies and international consensus about AP physiology, etiology, risk factors, diagnosis, severity assessment, imaging and treatment.