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Contents Contributors Foreword Preface 1 Acute pancreatitis: definition and classification for clinical practice Edward L. Bradley III 2 Pathogenesis: how does acute pancreatitis develop? Michael L. Steer and George Perides 3 Pathophysiology of acute pancreatitis: which events are clinically relevant? Miguel Pérez-Mateo and Juan Martínez 4 How should acute pancreatitis be diagnosed in clinical practice? Richard S. Kwon and Peter A. Banks 5 Guidelines for the detection of the etiologic factor of acute pancreatitis J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 6 Early prognostic evaluation of acute pancreatitis: why and how should severity be predicted? J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 7 Role of imaging methods in acute pancreatitis: diagnosis, staging, complications Emil J. Balthazar 8 Basis of therapy in acute pancreatitis C.W. Imrie 9 Guidelines for the treatment of pain in acute pancreatitis Juan Martínez and Miguel Pérez-Mateo 10 Nutrition in the acute phase of pancreatitis: why, when, how, and how long? K. Paraskeva, C. Avgerinos, and C. Dervenis 11 Antibiotic prophylaxis for acute pancreatitis in clinical practice: rationale, indications, and protocols Giovanni Butturini, Roberto Salvia, Nora Sartori, and Claudio Bassi 12 Modulation of the inflammatory response in acute pancreatitis: what can be expected? Colin J. McKay 13 Early endoscopic sphincterotomy in acute pancreatitis: is it indicated, advisable, not indicated, or contraindicated? A proposal for clinical practice Jennifer Barro, Roy M. Soetikno, and David L. Carr-Locke 14 Indications for surgery in acute pancreatitis Oscar Joe Hines and Howard A. Reber 15 Surgical approaches to acute necrotizing pancreatitis Laureano Fern ndez-Cruz and Hans G. Beger 16 Management of acute pancreatic pseudocyst: when to observe, when and how to drain René Laugier 17 Therapeutic approach to pancreatic abscess Luis Sabater, Julio Calvete, and Salvador Lledó 18 Is there a place for laparoscopic surgery in the management of acute pancreatitis? G. Castellanos, A. Piñero, and P. Parrilla 19 What should be done to prevent relapses of acute pancreatitis? Karlheinz Kiehne and Ulrich R. Fölsch 20 Treatment of acute pancreatitis in clinical practice: a global view J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 21 Chronic pancreatitis: definition and classification for clinical practice Peter Layer and Ulrike Melle 22 Epidemiology of chronic pancreatitis: an infrequent disease or an infrequently diagnosed disease? Salvador Navarro and Antonio Soriano 23 Etiopathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis: a genetic disease with some precipitating factors? Georgios I. Papachristou and David C. Whitcomb 24 Pathophysiology of chronic pancreatitis Frank Ulrich Weiss and Markus M. Lerch 25 What is clinically relevant about the genetics of cystic fibrosis Harry Cuppens 26 How does alcohol damage the pancreas? Tomas Hucl, Alexander Schneider, and Manfred V. Singer 27 Why is chronic pancreatitis so difficult to detect? Key clinical aspects for an early diagnosis Paul Georg Lankisch and Bernhard Lembcke 28 Role of imaging methods in diagnosing, staging, and detecting complications of chronic pancreatitis in clinical practice: should MRCP and MRI replace ERCP and CT? Carmen Villalba and J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 29 The place of endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis Stefan Kahl and Peter Malfertheiner 30 Should histology and/or cytology be the gold standard for the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis in clinical practice? Dale E. Bockman 31 Pancreatic function tests for diagnosis and staging of chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency of other etiologies: which tests are necessary and how should they be performed in clinical routine? J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 32 Follow-up of patients with chronic pancreatitis: what to do and which complications can be expected Lucio Gullo and Raffaele Pezzilli 33 Conservative treatment of pain in chronic pancreatitis: guidelines for clinical routine Pierluigi Di Sebastiano, Markus A. Weigand, Jorg Köninger, Fabio F. di Mola, Helmut Friess, and Markus W. Büchler 34 Endoscopic treatment of pain in chronic pancreatitis: really useful or only feasible Guido Costamagna and Andrea Tringali 35 Management of maldigestion in chronic pancreatitis: a practical protocol J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz 36 Management of maldigestion in cystic fibrosis: tricks for an adequate outcome Luisa Guarner 37 Management of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency associated with other clinical conditions: gastrointestinal surgery, diabetes mellitus, AIDS Julio Iglesias-García 38 Indications and timing of surgery in chronic pancreatitis Werner Hartwig, Jens Werner, Markus W. Büchler, and Waldemar Uhl 39 Surgical approaches to chronic pancreatitis: technical implications and outcome Hans G. Beger, B. Mühling, N. Hiki, Zhengfei Zhou, Zhanbing Liu, and B. Poch 40 Management of chronic pancreatic pseudocyst: when to observe, when and how to drain William R. Brugge 41 What is the epidemiologic impact of pancreatic cance Joachim Mössner 42 Molecular basis of pancreatic carcinogenesis: which concepts may be clinically relevant? M. Wirtz, J. Nyarangi, J. Koeninger, and H. Friess 43 Genetic basis of pancreatic carcinogenesis: which concepts may be clinically relevant? Felix Lluis 44 Clinical assessment of pancreatic cancer: is there a chance for early diagnosis? Parviz M. Pour 45 What can be expected from tumor markers in pancreatic cancer? Thomas Seufferlein and Guido Adler 46 Stage classification of pancreatic cancer Antonio Farré 47 Imaging diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer: which methods are essential? Elliot Fishman, Marchelle Bean, and Karen Horton 48 The role of endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and assessment of the resectability of pancreatic cancer Marc Giovannini 49 Pancreatic cancer: do we need a tissue diagnosis in order to proceed with resection? Matthew M. Hutter and Andrew L. Warshaw 50 Staging laparoscopy and peritoneal cytology in pancreatic cancer Ramon E. Jimenez and Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo 51 Management of pain in pancreatic cancer: an algorithm for clinical routine Åke Andrén-Sandberg 52 What is the optimal surgical treatment for resectable pancreatic cancer? Beat M. Künzli, Helmut Friess, and Markus W. Büchler 53 Adjuvant and neoadjuvant treatment of resectable pancreatic cancer: what is worth attempting? Michael G.T. Raraty, Paula Ghaneh, and John P. Neoptolemos 54 The role of endoscopy in the management of unresectable pancreatic cancer Richard A. Kozarek 55 Palliative chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer: what can be expected? Matthias Löhr and Frederik Wenz 56 Novel treatments and gene therapy in pancreatic cancer Matthias Löhr and Nicholas R. Lemoine 57 Spectrum and classification of cystic tumors of the pancreas Markus Kosmahl and Günter Klöppel 58 Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of pancreatic cystic tumors Roberto Salvia, Isabella Frigerio, Claudio Bassi, Massimo Falconi and Paulo Pederzoli 59 The role of endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and management of cystic tumors of the pancreas Enrique Vazquez-Sequeiros and Julio Iglesias-García 60 Therapeutic approach to cystic tumors L. Fern ndez-Cruz, I. Martínez, R. Gelabert, G. Cesar-Borges, E. Astudillo and S. Navarro Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Pancreas -- Diseases.
Pancreatitis -- diagnosis.
Pancreatitis -- therapy.
Gastroenterology -- methods.