Meet the editor

Dmitry Victorovich Garbuzenko graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Medical Institute in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he was a clinical intern. From 1987 to 1990, he was a post-graduate student at the Hospital Surgery Department in Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy. In 1991, he defended his Ph.D. thesis. He was an assistant in the Department of Hospital Surgery from 1991 to 1996. In 1996, he became an Assistant, and then an Associate

Professor (2003), and then Professor (2006) of the Department of Faculty Surgery, South Ural State Medical University. In 2008, he defended his doctoral thesis (M.D.). Professor Garbuzenko is a member of the Russian Society of Surgeons. His practical activities focus on emergency abdominal surgery. He is the author of nearly 170 publications.

Contents

Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis

*by Zaheer Nabi and D. Nageshwar Reddy*

Pediatric Pancreatitis: Not a Rare Entity

*by Dmitry Garbuzenko*

*and Khek Yu Ho*

Pancreatitis

*and Salvatore Caterino*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1** Introductory Chapter: Current Challenges in the Management of Patients with

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 25** Endoscopic Management of Pancreatic Fluid Collection in Acute Pancreatitis

**Chapter 4 35** Up-To-Date View on the Clinical Manifestations and Complications of Chronic

**Chapter 5 67**

Endoscopic Management of Pancreatic Fluid Collections: An Update

*by Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Laurentius Adrianto Lesmana* 

*by Mila Dimitrova Kovacheva-Slavova, Plamen Georgiev Getsov, Georgi Borislavov Vladimirov and Borislav Georgiev Vladimirov*

*by Stefano Valabrega, Laura Bersigotti, Laura Antolino, Paolo Aurello, Federico Tomassini, P. Valabrega, S. Amato, Francesco D'Angelo, Luciano Izzo* 
