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From mild disease to multiorgan failure and sepsis, acute pancreatitis is a disorder that has numerous causes, an obscure pathogenesis, few effective remedies, and an often unpredictable outcome. In 1925, Moynihan aptly described the dramatic nature of acute pancreatitis as the "most terrible of all calamities that occur in connection with the abdominal viscera. The suddenness of its onset, the illimitable agony which accompanies it, and the mortality attendant upon it render it the most formidable of catastrophes"¹. Just over 100 years ago, Reginald Fitz² described many of the modern clinical and pathologic features of severe acute pancreatitis³. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Epidemiology

Causes of Acute Pancreatitis

Obstructive Causes

Toxins and Drugs

Trauma

Metabolic Causes

Infection

Miscellaneous Causes

Idiopathic Pancreatitis

Acute Pancreatitis in Children

Pathophysiology

Diagnosis

Prognostic Indicators

Natural History and Complications

Treatment

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From the Departments of Medicine (W.S.) and Health Care Sciences (S.T.), Division of Gastroenterology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

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