Role of interventional imaging medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of severe acute pancreatitis        YANG Xiu-hua, ZHANG Yu, WANG Xiu-yun. Department of Abdominal Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Haerbin 150001，China
Corresponding author: YANG Xiu-hua, E-mail:yxiuhua@hotmail.com
Abstract    Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a critical disease with high morbidity and mortality. Interventional imaging medicine plays a key role in the entire process of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of SAP. Minimally invasive procedures including fine needle aspiration, ultrasound or computer tomography guided percutaneous catheter drainage and so on can decrease effectively the intraabdominal pressure and inflammatory mediators even avoiding open necrosectomy.