Radiology of acute pancreatitis today: the Atlanta classification and the current role of imaging in its diagnosis and treatment. / Radiología de la pancreatitis aguda hoy: clasificación de Atlanta y papel actual de la imagen en su diagnóstico y tratamiento.

Acute pancreatitis is common and requires multidisciplinary management. The revised Atlanta classification, published in 2012, defines the terminology necessary to enable specialists from different backgrounds to discuss the morphological and clinical types of acute pancreatitis. Radiologists' role depends fundamentally on computed tomography (CT), which makes it possible to classify the morphology of this disease and to predict its clinical severity by applying imaging severity indices. Furthermore, CT- or ultrasound-guided drainage is, together with endoscopy, the current technique of choice in the initial approach to collections that appear as a complication. This paper aims to disseminate the concepts coined in the revised Atlanta classification and to describe the current role of radiologists in the diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis.

[Direct embolization of stomal varices in portal hypertension after the treatment of liver metastases]. / Embolización directa de varices estomales en la hipertensión portal tras el tratamiento de metástasis hepáticas.

We present the case of a man with a history of colorectal carcinoma and metastatic liver involvement who developed portal hypertension and recurrent bleeding from stomal varices after treatment with intra-arterial oxaliplatin and radioembolization with yttrium-90 microspheres. The definitive treatment for the bleeding episodes was embolization of the varices with coils using a direct percutaneous approach.