Special Issue

Pancreatitis: New Insights into Etiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Management and Complications

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2019 (Open)               Submit Now

Guest Editor

Prashanth Rawla, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, SOVAH Health, Martinsville, VA, USA
E-mail: rawlap@gmail.com
Website: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/583880/bio
Research Interests: Gastroenterology; mainly pancreatitis; inflammatory bowel disease; hepatitis; diabetes and oncology

About This Topic

Acute and chronic pancreatitis pose significant burdens in terms of morbidity, mortality rate, and financial costs. Novel insights into etiology, physio-pathology, clinical features, diagnosis, management and complications of pancreatitis have been recently published in scientific journals, thus changing both disease paradigms and clinical practice.

We invite authors to submit new research ongoing research and review of current research in the form of original research contributions, literature reviews, case reports, mini reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis in the subject of the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of pancreatitis.

Potential sub topics include but are not limited to the following:
Epidemiology and classification
Risk factors
Pancreatitis, acute and chronic: the pathologist’s point of view
Biology and molecular pathways of acute and chronic pancreatitis
Diagnosis: the role of ultrasound, Ct abdomen and endoscopic ultrasound and novel technologies. Role of amylase and lipase.
Current management: treatment and surveillance strategies
Future perspectives
Pancreatitis and risk of pancreatic cancer
Non alcoholic pancreatic disease and pancreatitis
Complications of pancreatitis

Planned Papers

Title：Pancreatitis: New insights into etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, and complications
Authors: Dr. Fady Kaldas and Dr. Danielle Graham
Affiliation: Surgery department at UCLA, USA

Title：Management of pancreatic fluid collection complicating acute pancreatitis
Authors: Gaël Deplanque, Domenico Galasso
Affiliation: Hopital Riviera Chablais, Canton VD et VS, Switzerland

Title：Endoscopic management of acute recurrent pancreatitis
Authors: Pier Alberto Testoni
Affiliation: Vita Salute San Raffaele University - San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Title：Management of severe necrotising pancreatitis
Authors: Michal Kawka, Tamara Gall, Professor Jiao Long
Affiliation: Department of Surgery and Cancer, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London

Title：Walled-off necrosis in acute pancreatitis: clinical implications
Author: Raffaele Pezzilli
Affiliation: Pancreas Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Sant'Orsola Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy

Title: A Review of Current Surgical Management of Chronic Pancreatitis.
Authors: En Yaw Hong, MD; JoAnn Coleman, DNP, ACNP. AOCN; Vanita Ahuja, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS
Affiliation:
1. Surgical resident PGY 3 at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland USA
2. Coordinator and nurse practitioner, Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland USA
3. General surgeon and surgery residency program director, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland USA

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