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.

1. Revised Atlanta Classification of Acute Pancreatitis.- 2. Organ Failure and Acute Pancreatitis.- 3. Sterile and Infected Pancreatic Necrosis.- 4. Evolving Definitions of Severe Acute Pancreatitits.- 5. Clinical Predictors.- 6. Imaging Predictors.- 7. Predictive Scoring Systems in Acute Pancreatitis.- 8. Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis.- 9. Antiobiotic Therapy.- 10. Nutrition in Severe Acute Pancreatitis.- 11. Pharmacologic Therapy.- 12. Management of Ductal Leaks.- 13. Endoscopic Management of Severe Gallstone Pancreatitis.- 14. Direct Endoscopic Necrosectomy.- 15. Retroperitoneoscopic Approaches for Infected Necrotizing Pancreatitis.- 16. Surgical Approaches.- 17. Internventions for Nectrotizing Pancreatitis: A Mutlidisciplinary Approach.