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Histopathology ofAcute Pancreatitis
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Histopathology Related toEtiologic
Factors andPathophysiologic
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? Table17.1 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 ofAcute 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 forClassifying theSeverity
ofAcute 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 (Table18.1). 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 (Table18.2):
the “determinant- based classification” (DBC) in 2012
with four categories of severity [8] and the “revised
Atlanta classification” (RAC) in 2013with 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 (Table18.3). 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 (Table18.4). 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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Table18.1 The reasons forclassifying theseverity ofacute
pancreatitis.
Related to clinical
decision-
Related to research
decision-
a
Denotes reason that is more appropriate for prediction than
classification systems.
Table18.2 Classifications forthe severity ofacute 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
Table18.3 Key differences between theDBC andRAC
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 toSeverity Classification
Depends onthe 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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Table18.4 Studies that compared thedeterminant- based classification (DBC) andrevised Atlanta classification (RAC) systems fromthe
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.

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Table18.5 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 46intensive 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
(“group2”) have a high morbidity but low mortality. In
contrast, patients with persistent organ failure but without local complications (“group3”) have a high mortality
but relatively low morbidity.
These studies also confirmed that patients with critical acute pancreatitis (“group4”) 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.
9.4days), need for invasive treatment (100 vs. 39.2%),
admission to intensive care unit (97.3 vs. 53.6%), and
hospital stay (median 88 vs. 34.2days) 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 andBiochemical Markers toObjectify Severity andPrognosis
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
toSeverity 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
NewYork[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 ofOrgan 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 3days after onset
of acute pancreatitis/hospital admission was first
described by Isenmann etal. 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
(Table19.1).
Table19.1 (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
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