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Due to truly remarkable improvements in critical care medicine, early deaths from severe acute pancreatitis have become decidedly rare. Today, the majority of deaths from acute pancreatitis occur late in the course of the disease and are overwhelmingly dur to secondary bacterial infection of damaged pancreatic tissues [1, 2]. Not all bacterial pancreatic infections carry the same risk for affected patients, however. Of the three recognized forms of secondary bacterial infections (infected pseudocyst, pancreatic abscess, and infected pancreatic necrosis), infected necrosis is the most common, the most severe, and the most lethal [3–6]. Accordingly, accurate and consistent definitions of secondary pancreatic infections are necessary for appropriate therapy, and to provide coherent patient populations for comparison of management options [7].
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Bradley, E.L. (1993). Open Packing for Infected Pancreatic Necrosis. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M., Malfertheiner, P. (eds) Standards in Pancreatic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77437-9_26
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