title: [New classification of acute pancreatitis].
abstract: The course of acute pancreatitis is in the initial phase dominated by a systemic inflammatory response, later by local complications. A new classification defines three specific types of pancreatitis: 1) interstitial oedematous pancreatitis and 2) necrotizing pancreatitis with pancreatic parenchymal necrosis, or 3) peripancreatic necrosis alone. The classification also defines four types of collections: 1) Acute peripancreatic fluid collection, 2) pseudocyst, 3) acute post-necrotic collection, and 4) walled-off necrosis. This article summarizes the terminology of the revised Atlanta classification.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk Sektion, Gastroenheden, Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: Benny Østerbye
authors.initials: BØ
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Palle Nordblad
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D000208:Acute Disease; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D010179:Pancreas / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed