IAP Guidelines for the Surgical Management of Acute Pancreatitis

A Clinically Based Classification System for Acute Pancreatitis

1993 • 2,752 citations

Acute pancreatitis: value of CT in establishing prognosis.

1990 • 1,623 citations

Bacterial contamination of pancreatic necrosis

1986 • 926 citations

CONTROLLED TRIAL OF URGENT ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY AND ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY VERSUS CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT FOR ACUTE PANCREATITIS DUE TO GALLSTONES

1988 • 875 citations

Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Treatment Strategy According to the Status of Infection

2000 • 812 citations

Early Treatment of Acute Biliary Pancreatitis by Endoscopic Papillotomy

1993 • 790 citations

Gallstone Migration as a Cause of Acute Pancreatitis

1974 • 631 citations

Early ERCP and Papillotomy Compared with Conservative Treatment for Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

1997 • 613 citations

Early versus late necrosectomy in severe necrotizing pancreatitis

1997 • 539 citations

A randomized multicenter clinical trial of antibiotic prophylaxis of septic complications in acute necrotizing pancreatitis with imipenem.

1993 • 504 citations

Early antibiotic treatment in acute necrotising pancreatitis

1995 • 498 citations

Percutaneous CT-guided catheter drainage of infected acute necrotizing pancreatitis: techniques and results.

1998 • 477 citations

Endoscopic therapy for organized pancreatic necrosis

1996 • 443 citations

A prospective longitudinal study of observation versus surgical intervention in the management of necrotizing pancreatitis

1991 • 416 citations

Practice Guidelines, a New Reality in Medicine

1992 • 416 citations

Percutaneous Necrosectomy and Sinus Tract Endoscopy in the Management of Infected Pancreatic Necrosis: An Initial Experience

2000 • 404 citations

Early diagnosis of pancreatic infection by computed tomography-guided aspiration

1987 • 387 citations

Relationship of necrosis to organ failure in severe acute pancreatitis

1997 • 354 citations

Late mortality in patients with severe acute pancreatitis

2001 • 352 citations

Débridement and Closed Packing for the Treatment of Necrotizing Pancreatitis

1998 • 349 citations

The Timing of Biliary Surgery in Acute Pancreatitis

1979 • 347 citations

Bacterial infection and extent of necrosis are determinants of organ failure in patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis

1999 • 328 citations

Necrosectomy and postoperative local lavage in necrotizing pancreatitis

1988 • 318 citations

Practice guidelines: a new reality in medicine. III. Impact on patient care

1993 • 302 citations

United Kingdom guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis

1998 • 281 citations

Gallstone pancreatitis: a prospective randomized trial of the timing of surgery.

1988 • 246 citations

Role of antibiotics in acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis

1998 • 234 citations

North of England evidence based guidelines development project: methods of guideline development

1996 • 221 citations

Role of ultrasonographically guided fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of infected pancreatic necrosis

1998 • 218 citations

Early treatment with antibiotics reduces the need for surgery in acute necrotizing pancreatitis—a single-center randomized study

2001 • 208 citations

Early surgical débridement of symptomatic pancreatic necrosis is beneficial irrespective of infection

1992 • 208 citations

Pancreatic infection complicating acute pancreatitis

1993 • 207 citations

Prophylactic Antibiotic Administration Reduces Sepsis and Mortality in Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis: A Meta-Analysis

2001 • 206 citations

A randomised, double blind, multicentre trial of octreotide in moderate to severe acute pancreatitis

1999 • 203 citations

Endoscopic sphincterotomy for common bile duct calculi in patients with gall bladder in situ considered unfit for surgery.

1988 • 199 citations

Management of Infected Pancreatic Necrosis by Open Drainage

1987 • 192 citations

Pancreatic Infection in Severe Pancreatitis

2001 • 189 citations

Reduction in Mortality With Delayed Surgical Therapy of Severe Pancreatitis

2002 • 185 citations

Does an Infected Peripancreatic Fluid Collection or Abscess Mandate Operation?

2000 • 185 citations

Developing clinically valid practice guidelines

1995 • 178 citations

Management of sterile necrosis in instances of severe acute pancreatitis.

1995 • 177 citations

Prognostic factors in sterile pancreatic necrosis

1992 • 174 citations

CT-guided aspiration of suspected pancreatic infection

1995 • 172 citations

Management of necrotizing pancreatitis by repeated operative necrosectomy using a zipper technique

1998 • 168 citations

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis: Management by planned, staged pancreatic necrosectomy/debridement and delayed primary wound closure over drains

1991 • 167 citations

Relation of diagnostic serum amylase levels to aetiology and severity of acute pancreatitis.

1992 • 156 citations

Pancreatic abscess and infected pancreatic necrosis

1987 • 147 citations

Acute gallstone pancreatitis

1999 • 143 citations

A fifteen year experience with open drainage for infected pancreatic necrosis.

1993 • 143 citations

Pancreatic Abscess and Infected Pancreatic Necrosis: Different Local Septic Complications in Acute Pancreatitis

1987 • 138 citations

No Strict Correlation Between Necrosis and Organ Failure in Acute Pancreatitis

2000 • 125 citations

The Role of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Severe Acute Pancreatitis

1997 • 124 citations

A Multivariate Analysis of Preoperative Risk Factors in Patients with Common Bile Duct Stones

1989 • 116 citations

Early ductal decompression prevents the progression of biliary pancreatitis: An experimental study in the opossum

1993 • 110 citations

Timing of Laparoscopic Surgery in Gallstone Pancreatitis

1995 • 106 citations

Incidence and Reversibility of Organ Failure in the Course of Sterile or Infected Necrotizing Pancreatitis

2001 • 106 citations

Natural history of acute pancreatitis and the role of infection

1999 • 92 citations

Endoscopic sphincterotomy without cholecystectomy for gall stone pancreatitis.

1995 • 89 citations

Biliary pancreatitis: Clinical presentation and surgical management

1986 • 87 citations

Debridement and closed cavity irrigation for the treatment of pancreatic necrosis

1989 • 86 citations

Risks of leaving the gallbladder in situ after endoscopic sphincterotomy for bile duct stones

1991 • 84 citations

Resection of the pancreas for acute fulminant pancreatitis.

1981 • 83 citations

Long-term results after pancreas resection for acute necrotizing pancreatitis

1985 • 83 citations

ERCP findings and the role of endoscopic sphincterotomy in acute gallstone pancreatitis

1988 • 82 citations

Fatal necrotizing pancreatitis following fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the pancreas.

1981 • 80 citations

Role of total pancreatectomy in the treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis

1981 • 75 citations

Microbiological findings in severe pancreatitis

1989 • 72 citations

Acute gallstone pancreatitis: Best timing for biliary surgery

1982 • 69 citations

Role of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the management of acute gallstone pancreatitis

1994 • 65 citations

Acute biliary pancreatitis: Diagnosis and management

1997 • 63 citations

Endoscopic Sphincterotomy and Recurrence of Acute Pancreatitis in Gallstone Patients Considered Unfit for Surgery

1997 • 61 citations

Surgical treatment of biliary tract disease associated with acute pancreatitis.

1970 • 59 citations

Surgery for gallstone pancreatitis

1993 • 57 citations

Management of Gallstone Cholangitis in the Era of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

2001 • 55 citations

Endoscopic Treatment of Bile Duct Calculi in Patients with Gallbladder in Situ Long-Term Outcome and Factors Predictive of Recurrent Symptoms

1996 • 47 citations

[Treatment of acute necrotizing pancreatitis through the early surgical ablation of necrotic portions].

1974 • 44 citations

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis: a multicenter study.

1994 • 42 citations

Percutaneous aspiration of peripancreatic fluid collections: a safe method to detect infection.

1987 • 40 citations

Percutaneous fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the pancreas resulting in death

1991 • 34 citations

[The therapy of acute pancreatitis. General guidelines. Working group of the Society for Scientific-Medical Specialties].

2000 • 34 citations

Current management of the gallbladder after endoscopic sphincterotomy for common bile duct stones

1997 • 27 citations

Early Endoscopic Sphincterotomy in the Management of Acute Gallstone Pancreatitis in Elderly Patients

1990 • 23 citations

Outcome after surgery for biliary pancreatitis.

1996 • 18 citations

The Management of Severe Gallstone Pancreatitis

2001 • 17 citations

Biliary acute pancreatitis.

1991 • 16 citations

Therapie der akuten Pankreatitis

2003 • 11 citations