Rory O'Donohoe MBBCh, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Sinead Helena McEvoy MBBCh, FFR(RCSI), Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Lisa P. Lavelle MBBCh, FFR(RCSI), Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

David Paul Brophy MBBCh,FFR(RCSI), Abstract Co-Author: Research Consultant, Marvao Medical Limited Shareholder, Marvao Medical Limited

Colin Patrick Cantwell MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Jeffrey William McCann MBBCh, MSc, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Edmund Ronan Ryan MBBCh, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

The purpose of this exhibit is: 1. To review the complications of acute pancreatitis including the various types of vascular and non-vascular complications. 2. To discuss the indications for image guided intervention with an emphasis on clinical evaluation. 3. To review the role of MRI in the assessment of fistulae and of phlegmonous peri-pancreatic collections.  4. To illustrate the IR techniques for treatment of both vascular and non-vascular complications.

1. Overview of the complications of acute pancreatitis. 2. The types of collections associated with acute pancreatitis (using the revised Atlanta classification of pancreatitis: acute peripancreatic fluid collections, acute necrotic collections,  pseudocysts, walled off necrosis), and indications for their drainage. 3. Drainage approaches and techniques, including retroperitoneal, transhepatic and transgastric drainage. 4. Fistulae and their management, including pancreaticopleural fistulae. 5. The diagnosis and treatment of arterial and venous complications, with an emphasis on endovascular therapy for pseuoaneurysms of the gastroduodenal artery, inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery and splenic artery. 6. Summary. 

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O'Donohoe, R, McEvoy, S, Lavelle, L, Brophy, D, Cantwell, C, McCann, J, Ryan, E, Managing Complicated Acute Pancreatitis: Interventional Radiology to the Rescue.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14006783.html