title: JPN Guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis: surgical management.
abstract: Acute pancreatitis represents a spectrum of disease ranging from a mild, self-limited course to a rapidly progressive, severe illness. The mortality rate of severe acute pancreatitis exceeds 20%, and some patients diagnosed as mild to moderate acute pancreatitis at the onset of the disease may progress to a severe, life-threatening illness within 2-3 days. The Japanese (JPN) guidelines were designed to provide recommendations regarding the management of acute pancreatitis in patients having a diversity of clinical characteristics. This article sets forth the JPN guidelines for the surgical management of acute pancreatitis, excluding gallstone pancreatitis, by incorporating the latest evidence for the surgical management of severe pancreatitis in the Japanese-language version of the evidence-based Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis published in 2003. Ten guidelines are proposed: (1) computed tomography-guided or ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for bacteriology should be performed in patients suspected of having infected pancreatic necrosis; (2) infected pancreatic necrosis accompanied by signs of sepsis is an indication for surgical intervention; (3) patients with sterile pancreatic necrosis should be managed conservatively, and surgical intervention should be performed only in selected cases, such as those with persistent organ complications or severe clinical deterioration despite maximum intensive care; (4) early surgical intervention is not recommended for necrotizing pancreatitis; (5) necrosectomy is recommended as the surgical procedure for infected pancreatic necrosis; (6) simple drainage should be avoided after necrosectomy, and either continuous closed lavage or open drainage should be performed; (7) surgical or percutaneous drainage should be performed for pancreatic abscess; (8) pancreatic abscesses for which clinical findings are not improved by percutaneous drainage should be subjected to surgical drainage immediately; (9) pancreatic pseudocysts that produce symptoms and complications or the diameter of which increases should be drained percutaneously or endoscopically; and (10) pancreatic pseudocysts that do not tend to improve in response to percutaneous drainage or endoscopic drainage should be managed surgically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery and Breast Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan.
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Isaji
authors.forename: Tadahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawarada
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirata
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mayumi
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sekimoto
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Yasutoshi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Otsuki
authors.forename: Seiki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuno
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004322:Drainage; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000601:surgery*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional