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Histopathology ofAcute Pancreatitis
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Histopathology Related toEtiologic Factors andPathophysiologic Mechanisms
Acute pancreatitis with a fat necrosis pattern is most often associated with alcohol abuse and gallstone disease. The only difference between the two etiologic factors on the resulting morphologic changes seems to be the disease severity, since biliary pancreatitis usually follows a mild course as compatible with interstitial pancreatitis, while alcoholic pancreatitis is a severe necrotizing disease. Rare causative factors are metabolic or drug- associated pro­cesses, and familial- hereditary or circulatory failure­related conditions.
The pathophysiologic mechanisms that lead to sudden autodigestive fat necrosis in the human pancreas are still unidentified or hypothetical. Based on findings in exper­imental pancreatitis it has been suggested that disrup­tion of intracellular compartmentalization leads to an intracellular enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases with subsequent acinar cell damage [18,19]. However, acinar cell necrosis has not yet been convincingly proven as the initial histologic lesion in acute human pancreati­tis caused by the most common etiologic factors[20]. It must therefore be assumed that etiologic factors such as alcohol abuse and gallstone disease lead to a functional rather than a structural acinar cell damage, which results in a sudden and uncontrolled release of digestive enzymes from the acinar cells into the adjacent intersti­tial tissue [20]. It is possible that among the released proenzymes lipase plays an important role, because it is one of the few pancreatic enzymes that does not require activation [21,22] and may therefore directly cause the liquefaction necrosis of interstitial fat cells. Whether fat necrosis depends on the action of lipase alone or the combined action of lipase plus other enzymes, such as phospholipase A2, is not known, but it is likely that sev­eral proenzymes as well as cytokines become activated by fat- cell necrosis and may then help to destroy adjacent tissues and trigger the inflammatory process that deter­mines the severity of the clinical course.
Another pathophysiologic theory related to the fat necrosis pattern, which rests on the frequent association of gallstone disease with pancreatitis, is the duct obstruc­tion–bile reflux theory (based on Opie’s common chan­nel theory)[23]. It postulates that temporary obstruction of the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct by a gallstone (or tumor tissue or inspissated secretions as in cystic fibrosis)[24] causes increased intraductal pres­sure and/or ampullary incontinence, with duodenopan­creatic and bile reflux. This in turn activates pancreatic proenzymes, which leak from small ducts into the inter­stitial space. However, despite the obvious clinical
association between gallstone migration and pancreati­tis, definite functional and histologic proof of the ductal­obstruction pathogenesis is, thus far, lacking in human acute pancreatitis.
Acute pancreatitis with necrosis of the duct epithelium is associated with prolonged circulatory failure. In this case the tissue hypoxia in the pancreas seems to injure especially the medium- sized interlobular ducts and cause its necrosis. In addition, there could be an autoac­tivation of trypsinogen within the duct lumen, as the ducts are found to be filled with dense pancreatic secre­tions and neutrophil granulocytes [14]. This could be due to a stasis of pancreatic juice, which became viscous and sluggish because of a general slowdown of secretory processes in the exocrine pancreas, because of a severe circulatory failure. Since we saw a comparable picture in a case of familial pancreatitis, it may be speculated that a similar duct damage as in prolonged circulatory failure may occur due to mutation- related changes of the trypsinogen molecule (e.g., by PRSS1 mutations) allow­ing its uncontrolled premature activation[25].
In acute pancreatitis with acinar cell necrosis and with­out any significant autodigestive interstitial necrosis, there seems to be a direct cytotoxic damage to the acinar cells by microorganism such as mumps virus or bacterial agents.
Unsolved Questions
There are several unsolved questions in acute pancreati­tis, but the most important one concerns its pathogene­sis and pathophysiology. It is not known how etiologic factors such as alcohol abuse, gallstone disease, hypercalcemia, or circulatory failure lead to premature digestion in the pancreas. Moreover, the pathophysio­logic concepts currently discussed usually refer to experimental pancreatitis models [18,26,27]. Although these models have markedly improved our knowledge on pathogenetic mechanisms in acute pancreatitis, it must be emphasized that none of these models is fully compa­rable to what is seen in humans.
Another question that is still to be solved relates to the severity of acute pancreatitis. It is not yet known which factors govern the mechanisms that decide the extent of autodigestion and thus lead either to a mild or severe course of the disease.
A final question is how the criteria that define the Atlanta 2012 classification[1] and are solely based on radiologic[6] and clinical features relate to the morphologic findings in acute pancreatitis? Table17.1 therefore tries to summarize and correlate the most important criteria of the Atlanta 2012 classification with the histopathologic changes that can be seen in conventional acute pancreatitis.
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Severity Classification ofAcute Pancreatitis
John A. Windsor
Surgical and Translational Research Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Introduction
The accurate classification of acute pancreatitis severity is important because it will “improve communication and advance our understanding of the disease and its management” [1]. When specific treatments become available for clinical trials in acute pancreatitis “an inclu­sive clinical classification system will assume increasing importance” [2]. Systems for classifying severity will continue to evolve with new scientific knowledge and for this reason they are best considered “working” classifica­tions. The aim of this chapter is to outline the reasons for classifying severity, review the systems currently availa­ble, and identify aspects for further improvement.
Reasons forClassifying theSeverity ofAcute Pancreatitis
Classification systems are valuable in clinical and research settings, to assist communication between cli­nicians, patient monitoring and allocation to clinical studies, auditing of clinical outcomes, and comparison between centres (Table18.1). Some of these reasons are best met by predicting severity, rather than by classify­ing severity, although these are sometimes confused[3– 5]. When the ultimate disease severity needs to be anticipated ahead of time, prediction of severity is required. When the severity needs to be defined at a particular time point, classification of severity is required. In this way prediction is about the future and classification is about the present and the past. Prediction is usually required early in the disease course, whereas classification can be useful at any time during the disease course.
Severity Classification Systems
The first severity classification system for acute pancreatitis was published in 1983 [6], followed by the widely used original Atlanta classification in 1993 [7], which was a clinically based classification system that defined a binary approach: mild and severe disease. While there has never been difficulty in identifying patients with mild and uncomplicated acute pancreatitis, this is not so for severe disease. Nor is it so for patients with non- mild acute pancreatitis who represent a heterogenous group with varying severity and outcomes that were not cap­tured by the original Atlanta classification.
Two systems for classifying the severity of acute pan­creatitis were introduced about a decade ago and have replaced the original Atlanta classification (Table18.2): the “determinant- based classification” (DBC) in 2012 with four categories of severity [8] and the “revised Atlanta classification” (RAC) in 2013with three grades of severity[9]. It has been suggested that DBC and RAC are “equivalent” and “comparable and complemen­tary”[3,4], but there a “few differences”[10] worth not­ing (Table18.3). There have also been questions about which is the more valid, which has higher utility, and which should be used [11]. A number of studies have compared the validity of the DBC and RAC classification systems (Table18.4). Most of the studies have been from single tertiary centers and subject to selection bias.
The DBC defines severe AP on the basis of either persistent organ failure (without infected pancreatic necrosis) or infected pancreatic necrosis (without persis­tent organ failure). The RAC defines severe AP on the basis of persistent organ failure alone, with infected pancreatic necrosis a diagnostic criterion for the moderately severe grade[9]. The explanation given for this was that “infected necrosis without persistent organ failure . .. has a lesser
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Table18.1 The reasons forclassifying theseverity ofacute
pancreatitis.
Related to clinical decision-
Related to research decision-
a
Denotes reason that is more appropriate for prediction than
classification systems.
Table18.2 Classifications forthe severity ofacute pancreatitis.
Determinant- based classification[8]
Mild No (peri)pancreatic necrosis and no
Moderate Sterile (peri)pancreatic necrosis and/or
Severe Infected (peri)pancreatic necrosis or
Critical Infected (peri)pancreatic necrosis and
Revised Atlanta classification[9]
Mild No organ failure and no local or
Moderately Severe transient organ failure and/or
Severe Persistent organ failure (single or
making
making
Triage of patients regarding initial treatment intensity
Transfer of patients to specialist unit or intensive care
Tracking trajectory of patient’s clinical course
Treatment (e.g., ERCP, enteral nutrition)
Audit of outcome
Allocation of patients to trial arm
Analysis of interventions
organ failure
transient organ failure
persistent organ failure
persistent organ failure
systemic complications
local or systemic complications or exacerbations of preexisting comorbidities
multiple)
a
a
a
Table18.3 Key differences between theDBC andRAC
classification systems.
Severity classification
systems
DBC
Criteria
Exacerbation of comorbid disease Not
Infected (peri)pancreatic necrosis without persistent organ failure
a
Infected (peri)pancreatic necrosis with persistent organ failure
DBC: determinant- based classification; RAC: revised Atlanta classification.
category RAC grade
included
Severe Moderately
Critical Severe
Moderately severe
severe
Given the significant advances in the management of infected pancreatic necrosis, fueled by technology devel­opments and the seminal randomized trials from the Dutch Acute Pancreatitis group[22], it is reasonable to ask how important infected necrosis still is as a determi­nant of mortality. Open necrosectomy, which is respon­sible for new-
onset organ failure and increased mortality, has been superseded by the “step- up approach.” The original meta- analysis [14] has recently been repeated using data from the modern era and it has confirmed that infected pancreatic necrosis has become less impor­tant as a determinant of mortality (publication pending). This change has virtually abolished the second peak of the bimodal mortality curve, which was previously attributed to infected pancreatic necrosis [23]. In the nationwide prospective cohort study from 26 hospitals in Spain it was found that infected pancreatic necrosis correlated with high morbidity and had a mortality com­parable to sterile necrotizing pancreatitis[24].
mortality rate than infected necrosis with persistent organ failure.” Thus, the principle difference between the DBC and RAC is the importance attributed to infected pancreatic necrosis. In some studies patients with infected pancreatic necrosis without persistent organ failure have been shown to have a similar outcome to those with severe acute pancreatitis [12,13]. These findings are consistent with the meta- analysis of 14 studies which was the basis for the DBC[14]. This demonstrated that infected (peri)pan­creatic necrosis and persistent organ failure were inde­pendent and virtually equivalent determinants of mortality. It was for this reason that the DBC included infection of pancreatic necrosis in the severe category.
Approach toSeverity Classification Depends onthe Setting
In a peripheral hospital the incidence of severe and critical acute pancreatitis is low and the fundamental clinical decision is whether the patient is going to develop sufficiently severe acute pancreatitis to war­rant transfer to a tertiary center. In this setting a binary classification system (non- severe vs. severe) might well suffice. In a tertiary center the requirements are differ­ent and the incidence of severe and critical acute pan­creatitis higher. In this setting there is value in having more than two categories of severity. With different
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Table18.4 Studies that compared thedeterminant- based classification (DBC) andrevised Atlanta classification (RAC) systems fromthe
same dataset.
Ref Setting Study design Key findings
Nawaz (2013) 3 Tertiary (SC)
Acevedo-
Chen (2015) 15 Tertiary (SC)
Mircea (2015) 16 Tertiary (SC)
Xu (2015) 17 Tertiary (SC)
Guo (2105) 18 Tertiary (SC)
Kadiyala (2016) 4 Tertiary (SC)
Bansal (2016) 19 Tertiary (SC)
Fernandes (2016) 20 Tertiary (SC)
Zubia­(2016)
Piedra (2014) 12 Tertiary (SC)
Olaskoaga
Pittsburgh
Spain
Nanjing
Bucharest
Lanzhou
Chengdu
Boston
Birmingham
Portugal
21 Tertiary (MC)
Spain etc.
Retrospective (prospective database)
Retrospective (prospective database)
Retrospective (prospective database)
Retrospective Similar for clinical outcomes, although RAC has slight
Retrospective Similar distribution and outcomes. Recommended
Prospective No significant difference between RAC and DBC.
Retrospective (prospective database)
Retrospective (prospective database)
Retrospective RAC and DBC were similar for outcomes
Prospective observational
DBC and RAC comparable for predicting ICU admission, ICU length of stay, and mortality. The RAC was better at predicting hospital stay and DBC better for predicting the need for intervention
No significant differences in the distribution and outcomes between the two classifications, but very low incidence of severe and critical categories
RAC and DBC comparable in relation to long­clinical prognosis, major complications, and clinical interventions. Critical category very high risk and distinct from severe category in DBC
advantage for hospital length of stay and DBC for ICU admission and length of stay. DBC easier to use
combining RAC and DBC
Mortality similar and distribution of severity marginally different
The RAC and DBC were essentially equivalent in predicting mortality, need for admission to the ICU, ICU length of stay, and hospital length of stay. Paucity of critical category, limited utility. Neither classification accounts for multisystem persistent organ failure, the strongest predictor of mortality
The RAC and DBC perform equally well. DBC critical category associated with doubled mortality risk, ICU stay and need for drainage or surgery greater than RAC, with definite implications for prognosis
Proposed a modified DBC for only ICU patients. Superior to DBC and RAC for mortality. Similar to DBC for morbidity and superior to RAC. Severe DBC category separated into two groups: transient organ failure with infected local complications and persistent organ failure and no infected local complications
term
ICU: intensive care unit.
treatment options available there is the need to accu­rately allocate patients to research arms and to tailor treatments to individual patients, it is desirable to have distinct and homogeneous patient subgroups to study and treat. For instance, if there were a new treatment for organ failure to be tested it would confound inter­pretation of outcomes if all patients were included with organ failure, even if this contained those who would respond promptly (e.g., transient organ failure), those who might not respond (e.g., persistent organ failure), and those who cannot respond (e.g., no organ failure).
Further, if the purpose of a treatment were to reverse established organ failure it would be necessary to exclude patients with transient organ failure. If the purpose were to prevent the development of persistent organ failure it would be necessary to include patients with transient organ failure. These examples indicate that while a binary classification is probably sufficient for those in primary and secondary care settings, more categories are required in the tertiary setting. Tailoring the severity classification needs to be tested, particu­larly in the secondary setting.
Conclusions 173
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Table18.5 Modified determinant- based classification (DBC) system for patients admitted to intensive care with organ failure[21]. Note
that patients with mild acute pancreatitis are not included. Source: Adapted from [21].
Parameters
Group Organ failure Infected necrosis Mortality Intensive care LOS Interventions
1 TOF No 2% Short
2 TOF Ye s 6.6% Long +
3 POF No 41% Short
4 POF Ye s 59% Long +
TOF: transient organ failure; POF: persistent organ failure; LOS: length of stay.
The use of severity classification has also been studied in the intensive care unit setting. In 2016 a modified DBC was recommended following a large prospective study involving 46intensive care units [21] and subse­quently validated [25,26]. Four groups were defined (Table 18.5), with mild acute pancreatitis excluded as these patients are not admitted to ICU. These studies provide compelling evidence that the severe category of AP, as defined by the DBC, represents two distinct sub­groups. Patients with local complications (infected pan­creatic necrosis, abdominal hemorrhage, and intestinal perforation), but without persistent organ failure (“group2”) have a high morbidity but low mortality. In contrast, patients with persistent organ failure but with­out local complications (“group3”) have a high mortality but relatively low morbidity.
These studies also confirmed that patients with criti­cal acute pancreatitis (“group4”) had a clinically and statistically different clinical course in regard to mor­bidity and mortality. Others have questioned the utility of this category because of its relatively infrequency[4], while in other series it is associated with a significantly higher mortality and is endorsed[13,19,26]. The criti­cal category has more clinical relevance in the ICU set­ting[27] (31% of patients with 54% mortality)[25] than in the tertiary hospital setting (1% of patients with 61% mortality) [26]. In the Spanish study [21] only 2.2% (37/1655) had critical AP but a mortality of 54%, compared with 39% with a mortality of 5.8% (97/1655) for severe AP. The time to oral feeding (median 24.2 vs.
9.4days), need for invasive treatment (100 vs. 39.2%), admission to intensive care unit (97.3 vs. 53.6%), and hospital stay (median 88 vs. 34.2days) were all sig­nificantly increased in patients with critical acute pancreatitis.
While the setting is important in regard to the approach to severity classification, there are other factors that might be considered including the quality of the evi­dence base, method used for development, the validity and ease of use.
Future Developments
The differences between classification systems represent an opportunity for further improvement, and some research priorities have been published[29]. In the edi­torial accompanying the DBC publication it was pointed out that there are severity determinants other than infected pancreatic necrosis and organ failure, including obesity, diabetes, and genetic predisposition, and if incorporated might have improved the DBC [2]. All three classifications (DBC, RAC, and modified DBC) fail to account for patients with “early severe” acute pancrea­titis and organ failure on admission, which is a particu­larly challenging subgroup with a high mortality risk[30–33]. This suggests that the timing of the onset of organ failure might be factored into an improved classi­fication system [34]. Incorporating different aspects of organ dysfunction/failure may also help, including the duration, number, combination, and sequence of the organs affected [35]. Data on these dimensions may allow more accurate classification of patients with severe and critical acute pancreatitis. Increased stratification, beyond the four categories of the modified DBC, has been suggested because of the multiple therapeutic goals (in addition to reducing mortality) and the desire to per­sonalize treatment[36]. A “two- step approach” that dis­tinguishes single and multiple persistent organ failure and includes 13 severity categories has been reported and requires prospective validation. Further improve­ments in severity classification might go beyond these clinically defined determinants to incorporate biomark­ers that more accurately define severity.
Conclusions
Classifying the severity of acute pancreatitis is impor­tant for the clinical care of patients and for research purposes. The RAC and DBC have been in use for over a decade, we know they perform reasonably well. We
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also know that predicting (and not classifying) the severity of acute pancreatitis is required in the commu­nity and secondary care settings because the key decision is whether a patient needs to be transferred or not. In the tertiary setting, especially in the ICU setting, the modified DBC should become the preferred approach, noting that it would be helpful to move away from numbered groups to clinical descriptors (e.g., 0 = mild, 1 = moderate, 2 = moderately severe, 3 = severe, and 4 = critical)[21]. These are clinically distinct sub­groups of patients which when classified accurately will improve the delivery of care to these patients and the study design for testing new treatments. Advances in the care of patients with acute pancreatitis will require
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Clinical Assessment andBiochemical Markers toObjectify Severity andPrognosis
Bettina M. Rau1 and Claus Schäfer
1
Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital of Neumarkt, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
2
Department of Internal Medicine II, Hospital of Neumarkt, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
2
Introduction
Among the inflammatory digestive disorders acute pancreatitis continues to challenge physicians as the least and most difficult one to predict in terms of clinical course and outcome. Ever since the first classification system of acute pancreatitis was established in Marseille in 1965 [1] the definition of “severe” disease has been linked to disease- specific complications with an increased risk of mortality [2–5]. Stratification of severity is required for targeting individual patients for interven­tions against evolving complications or for referral to specialist centers on the one hand and for comparing patients for scientific purposes or recruitment into clini­cal trials, on the other. The type and clinical relevance of a complication rendering the course of acute pancreatitis as “severe” has been the subject of continuous develop­ment and changes. New insights into pathomechanism and natural course of acute pancreatitis, development of laboratory variables and diagnostic imaging procedures as well as novel therapeutic approaches have strongly influenced definitions and classification systems and continue to do so.
Historical Perspectives: Approaches toSeverity Assessment
Attempts to stratify severity and prognosis date back to the second half of the last century and have been driven by major advances in new imaging procedures and labo­ratory tests. The development of serum amylase meas­urement in 1929[6] w as the first step toward a non invas ive diagnosis of acute pancreatitis and subsequently showed
that in the majority of patients a mild course with uneventful recovery was the rule rather than the excep­tion. Supported by the development of intensive care treatment and more restrictive indications for surgical treatment in patients with clinically severe disease, interest in prognostic assessment has gained consider­able headway since the 1960s. Attempts to define objective criteria for assessing disease severity and prognosis were pioneered by John Ranson in NewYork[7] and Clement Imrie in Glasgow[8] in the 1970s, which found widespread application in the pan­creatic community.
During the early 1980s intraoperative findings revealed
morphological features such as presence and extent
local­of necrosis[9,10] and infection of necrosis [11) showing an excellent correlation with systemic severity and out­come. Flanked by the introduction of contrast- enhanced computed tomography (CE- CT) and percutaneous guided fine- needle- aspiration (FNA) nonoperative assessment of these complications became possible and assigned morphology- based severity stratification a pre­dominant role. Hence, imaging procedures have become indispensable for assessment of severity in acute pan­creatitis and an integral part of new classification sys­tems[2–4] and treatment algorithms[5,12–16] alike.
After almost two decades of mainly morphology-
based severity stratification the role of systemic aspects in terms of onset, severity, and persistence of pancreatitis­related organ failure was recognized as a central deter­minant of severity [17–29]. Moreover, early and persisting multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS) has been found to outweigh morphological factors such as necrosis and even infection of necrosis as far as non­survival is concerned[20,29].
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Dynamics ofOrgan Failure
The prognostic role of early pancreatitis- associated organ failure was already recognized during the early 1970s. Objective measurement of pulmonary failure by arterial oxygen pressure or renal failure by serum creati­nine had become available and had been integrated into prognostic multiparameter scoring systems according to Ranson[7] and Imrie[8]. However, it took another three decades until pancreatologists realized that the occur­rence of a temporary single organ failure does not neces­sarily indicate a life- threatening disease. Specific aspects such as onset, severity, and persistence of organ failure have gained special attention in the past two decades.
Early Organ Failure
The role of “early” organ failure, defined as failure of one or more organ systems within the first 3days after onset of acute pancreatitis/hospital admission was first described by Isenmann etal. in 2001[17]. The presence of “early” single or multiple organ failure leads to a sig­nificant increase in mortality up to 56% irrespective of whether necrosis is sterile or infected [17–19,21,22]. Early multiple organ failure represents an important risk
factor for death and even seems to outweigh local mor­phological complications such as extent or infection of necrosis[20,29].
Persistent Organ Failure
The dynamics of organ failure in terms of response/reso­lution or nonresponse/persistence despite intensive care treatment has been identified as another major determi­nant of complications and death. In many pro- and retro­spective studies resolution of organ failure within the first week of the disease resulted in mortality rates close to zero, whereas mortality rates rose to 55% if organ fail­ure persisted beyond the first week[22–25,27]. Moreover, organ failure nonresponding to intensive care treatment closely correlates with the development of pancreatic infections and death[26,28,29].
There is little doubt that organ failure is one of the most important determinants of prognosis and mortality in acute pancreatitis. The revised Atlanta classification of 2012 [3] and the international multidisciplinary “Determinant- based classification” of 2012[4]) therefore defined organ failure as a central criterion to differenti­ate up to four severity groups of acute pancreatitis (Table19.1).
Table19.1 (a) Definition of three grades of severity in acute pancreatitis according to the
revised Atlanta classification 2012. Source:[3]/BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
* Mild acute pancreatitis: no organ failure
no local or systemic complications
* Moderately severe acute pancreatitis:
* Severe acute pancreatitis: persistent organ failure >48 h
(b) Definition of four grades of severity in acute pancreatitis according to the “Determinant- based classification” 2012. Source: Adapted from[4].
* Mild acute pancreatitis:
* Moderate acute pancreatitis:
* Severe acute pancreatitis:
* Critical acute pancreatitis:
organ failure that resolves within 48 h
(transient organ failure)
and/or
local or systemic complications
without persistent organ failure
single organ failure
multiple organ failure
no organ failure
no peri- /intrapancreatic necrosis
organ failure that resolves within 48 h
(transient organ failure)
and/or
sterile peri- /intrapancreatic necrosis
persistent organ failure >48 h
or
infected peri- /intrapancreatic necrosis
persistent organ failure >48 h
and
infected peri- /intrapancreatic necrosis