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Items below are real, dated publications or official notices from 2025–2026. Each has a source name, date, and URL. We do not invent studies, “breakthroughs,” or patient stories. Research news is not a reason to change your treatment unless your own clinician says so.

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17 August 2026 — AGA opens public comment on a new acute pancreatitis guideline

Source: American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) URL: https://gastro.org/news/open-for-public-comment-acute-pancreatitis-guideline/

AGA announced that a draft Clinical Practice Guideline on Management of Local Complications of Acute Pancreatitis is open for public comment (feedback by 17 September). Publication is scheduled for winter. AGA says the draft covers common local complications, multidisciplinary care, and shared decision-making, using GRADE methods.

This is a draft for comment, not a finished patient guideline.

30 May 2026 — First Ibero–Latin American acute pancreatitis guidelines (UEG Journal)

Source: United European Gastroenterology Journal (open-access guideline) Date: published 30 May 2026 (journal listing also as Volume 14, Issue 5, June 2026) URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/ueg2.70190

The iLATAM-AP guidelines (AEG–AESPANC–OPGE–SIED–SPG) are the first Ibero–Latin American clinical practice guidelines for acute pancreatitis. Expert teams from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America produced 20 evidence-based recommendations (GRADE) on diagnosis, causes, early care, local complications, intensive care, antibiotics, ERCP, timing of cholecystectomy, and pancreatic insufficiency. The protocol was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42022345788). Spanish and Portuguese versions were issued as supplements.

Relevant to European readers because it was published in the UEG journal and includes Spain and Portugal.

11 March 2026 — NHS updates its acute pancreatitis patient page

Source: National Health Service (UK) URL: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/acute-pancreatitis/ Page last reviewed: 11 March 2026 (next review due 11 March 2029)

NHS restates that acute pancreatitis needs urgent hospital treatment; most people start to improve within a week and leave hospital in 5 to 10 days; gallstones and heavy alcohol use are the leading causes; and emergency features include pain spreading to the back, persistent bloating, a fast heartbeat, difficulty breathing, or bruising around the navel. This is a patient-information review, not a new trial.

20 October 2025 — NHS reviews its chronic pancreatitis patient page

Source: NHS URL: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-pancreatitis/ Page last reviewed: 20 October 2025 (next review due 20 October 2028)

NHS confirms there is no cure, describes pain, oily stools, weight loss and type 3c diabetes, and advises no alcohol (even if alcohol was not the cause) and no smoking. Support organisations listed include Guts UK and Pain Concern.

1 September 2025 — GBD 2021: global pancreatitis burden and the East European peak

Source: Liu W, Qiao Z, Du C, Zhang X. Comprehensive age-period-cohort analysis of global pancreatitis burden and socioeconomic disparities (1990–2021). BMC Gastroenterology. 2025;25:630. Date: published 1 September 2025 URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12876-025-04222-1

Using Global Burden of Disease 2021 data, the authors report that modelled global cases rose from about 1.73 million (1990) to 2.75 million (2021), and deaths from about 68,490 to 122,416, while age-standardised rates fell. Eastern Europe had the highest age-standardised incidence, mortality, and DALY rates (ASIR about 99.35 per 100,000). High alcohol use accounted for about 16% of global pancreatitis deaths in GBD’s framework. GBD does not fully separate acute from chronic disease in this paper.

A related 2024 GBD 2021 analysis (Li et al.) is listed on Sources and Statistics.

10 July 2025 (e-publication) / September 2025 issue — IAP revises acute pancreatitis guidelines, endorsed by the European Pancreatic Club

Source: IAP/APA/EPC/IPC/JPS Working Group. International Association of Pancreatology Revised Guidelines on Acute Pancreatitis 2025. Pancreatology. 2025;25(6):770–814. Dates: electronic publication 10 July 2025; print issue September 2025 URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pan.2025.04.020

The International Association of Pancreatology, with the American Pancreatic Association, European Pancreatic Club, Indian Pancreas Club, and Japan Pancreas Society, updated its acute pancreatitis guidelines after a decade of change. 96 questions across 18 domains were graded with GRADE (PICO where appropriate). Topics include pain control, fluid therapy, nutrition, infected necrosis, complications, discharge, follow-up, prevention of recurrence, and special situations (pregnancy, trauma, metabolic causes). Written for clinicians, not as a self-treatment guide.

Mayo Clinic’s consumer pages on pancreatitis were also updated 31 October 2025: symptoms and causes, diagnosis and treatment.

If we cannot verify a date, journal, and URL, we do not post the item. Last editorial check: 29 August 2026.