Literature

Acute Pancreatitis Treatment Guidelines:

• Toouli J et al. Guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2002.
• American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute on "Management of Acute Pancreatits" Clinical Practice and Economics Committee; AGA Institute Governing Board. AGA Institute medical position statement on acute pancreatitis. Gastroenterology. 2007 May;132(5):2019-21.
• Forsmark CE, Baillie J; AGA Institute Clinical Practice and Economics Committee; AGA Institute Governing Board. AGA Institute technical review on acute pancreatitis.
  Gastroenterology. 2007 May;132(5):2022-44.
• Uhl W et al. IAP Guidelines for the Surgical Management of Acute Pancreatitis.
• [No authors listed] United Kingdom guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis. British Society of Gastroenterology. Gut 2005.
• Besselink MGH et al. Probiotic prophylaxis in predicted severe acute pancreatitis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2008 Feb 23;371(9613):651-9.

RCT: PYTHON, background

• Van Felius ID et al. Interdigestive small bowel motility and duodenal bacterial overgrowth in experimental acute pancreatitis. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2003.
• Isenmann R et al. Prophylactic antibiotic treatment in patients with predicted severe acute pancreatitis: a placebo-controlled, double-blind trial. Gastroenterol 2004.
• Dellinger EP et al. Early antibiotic treatment for severe acute necrotizing pancreatitis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Ann Surg. 2007 May;245(5):674-83.
• McClave et al. Artificial nutrition in pancreatic disease: what lessons have we learned from the literature? Clin Nutr. 2000 Feb;19(1):1-6.
• Bakker et al. Prevention, detection, and management of infected necrosis in severe acute pancreatitis. Curr Gastroenterol Rep. 2009 Apr;11(2):104-10.

RCT: PANTER, background

• Bosscha K et al. Fulminant acute pancreatitis and infected necrosis: results of open management of the abdomen and "planned" reoperations. J Am Coll Surg. 1998.
• Nieuwenhuijs VB et al. Surgical management of acute necrotizing pancreatitis: a 13-year experience and a systematic review. Scand J Gastroenterol 2003.King NK et al. European survey of surgical strategies for the management of severe acute pancreatitis. Am J Gastroenterol 2004.
• Werner J et al. Management of acute pancreatitis: from surgery to interventional intensive care. Gut. 2005.
• Besselink MGH et al. Minimally invasive 'step-up approach' versus maximal necrosectomy in patients with acute necrotising pancreatitis (PANTER trial): design and rationale of a randomised controlled multicenter trial [ISRCTN38327949]. BMC Surgery 2006 Apr 11;6(1):6.
• Besselink MGH et al. Surgical intervention in patients with necrotizing pancreatitis. Br J Surg. 2006 May;93(5):593-9.
• Besselink MG et al. Feasibility of minimally invasive approaches in patients with infected necrotizing pancreatitis. Br J Surg. 2007 May;94(5):604-8.