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Pancreatite aguda

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Last reviewed: 12 Aug 2025
Last updated: 06 Aug 2024
06 Aug 2024

As orientações atualizadas do American College of Gastroenterology incluem novas recomendações de ressuscitação fluídica para os pacientes com pancreatite aguda

Após uma análise da evidência, o American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) atualizou suas orientações sobre o manejo da pancreatite aguda.

O ACG recomenda:

  • Ressuscitação moderadamente agressiva com fluidos para os pacientes com pancreatite aguda

  • Reavaliação do volume de fluidos a intervalos frequentes

  • Fluido em bolus adicionais se houver evidências de hipovolemia

  • Monitoramento rigoroso de parâmetros clínicos, como frequência cardíaca, pressão arterial e débito urinário, particularmente nos idosos e pacientes com história de doença cardíaca e/ou renal

  • Medição do hematócrito e do nitrogênio ureico no sangue (BUN) 6-8 horas após a apresentação

Antes, a hidratação intravenosa precoce agressiva era recomendada para todos os pacientes com pancreatite aguda. As diretrizes atualizadas enfatizam a importância do monitoramento rigoroso e do ajuste do volume fluidico de acordo com os parâmetros clínicos e as características do paciente.

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Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • dor abdominal
  • náuseas e vômitos
  • anorexia
  • sinais de hipovolemia
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Other diagnostic factors

  • sinais de disfunção orgânica
  • sinal de Grey-Turner
  • sinal de Cullen
  • sinal de Fox
  • distensão abdominal
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Risk factors

  • mulheres de meia-idade
  • homens jovens e de meia-idade
  • cálculos biliares
  • bebidas alcoólicas
  • hipertrigliceridemia
  • hipercalcemia
  • uso de medicamentos causadores
  • parotidite
  • vírus Coxsackie
  • Pneumonia por micoplasma
  • colangiopancreatografia retrógrada endoscópica (CPRE)
  • trauma
  • pancreas divisum
  • câncer de pâncreas
  • disfunção no esfíncter de Oddi
  • história familiar de pancreatite
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • lipase e amilase séricas
  • testes da função hepática
  • hemograma completo e diferencial
  • hematócritos
  • ureia e eletrólitos séricos
  • gasometria arterial
  • proteína C-reativa
  • ultrassonografia transabdominal
  • radiografia torácica
  • razão de lipase/amilase séricas
  • triglicerídeos séricos
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Investigations to consider

  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) abdominal
  • ressonância nuclear magnética/colangiopancreatografia por ressonância magnética (RNM/CPRM)
  • ultrassonografia endoscópica (USE)
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Emerging tests

  • procalcitonina

Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

todos os pacientes

ONGOING

com piora ou com dificuldade de melhorar

Contributors

Authors

Scott Tenner, MD, MPH, JD, FACG

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Director, The Greater New York Endoscopy Surgical Center

Director, Brooklyn Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

State University of New York

NY

Disclosures

ST is an author of references cited in this topic. He declares that he has no other competing interests.

Craig T. Tenner, MD, FACP

Associate Professor

Medicine

New York University School of Medicine

NY

Disclosures

CTT declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Scott Tenner and Dr Craig T. Tenner would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Nicholas J. Zyromski, Dr Brian Daley, Dr Catherine Lindsay McKnight, and Dr Fernando Aycinena, previous contributors to this topic. They would also like to thank Dr Camille Blackledge for her contribution to this topic.

Disclosures

NJZ is an author of a reference cited in this topic. BD, CLM, FA, and CB declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Tamas A. Gonda, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Attending Physician and Director of Research

Columbia University Medical Center

New York

NY

Disclosures

TAG declares that he has no competing interests.

Alan Moss, MD

Harvard Medical Faculty Physician

Division of Gastroenterology

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston

MA

Disclosures

AM declares that he has no competing interests.

Derek O'Reilly, MD

Consultant Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgeon

Department of Surgery

North Manchester General Hospital

Manchester

UK

Disclosures

DOR is an author of a reference cited in this topic. He declares that he has no other competing interests.

Eric Frykberg, MD

Professor

Department of Surgery

Division General Surgery

Shands Jacksonville Medical Center

FL

Disclosures

At the time of the peer review, Dr E. Frykberg declared no competing interests. We were made aware that Dr Frykberg is now deceased.

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Key articles

Tenner S, Vege S, Sheth S, et al. American College of Gastroenterology guidelines: management of acute pancreatitis. Am J Gastroenterol. 2024 Mar 119(3):419-37.Full text  Abstract

Leppäniemi A, Tolonen M, Tarasconi A, et al. 2019 WSES guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis. World J Emerg Surg. 2019 Jun 13;14:27.Full text  Abstract

Working Group IAP/APA Acute Pancreatitis Guidelines. IAP/APA evidence-based guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis. Pancreatology. 2013 Jul-Aug;13(4 Suppl 2):e1-15.Full text  Abstract

American College of Radiology. ACR appropriateness criteria: acute pancreatitis. 2019 [internet publication].Full text

Crockett SD, Wani S, Gardner TB, et al. American Gastroenterological Association Institute guideline on initial management of acute pancreatitis. Gastroenterology. 2018 Mar;154(4):1096-101.

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