2019 Annual ReportJ GastroenterolPublished a study completed by the team of Professor Lu Nonghua, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, "Imbalance of intestinal flora in patients with acute pancreatitis and animal models can lead to severity of the disease"[1]。 This study systematically expounded the role of intestinal flora imbalance in the occurrence and development of acute pancreatitis (AP) in human and animal models respectively, and provided new ideas for the treatment of pancreatic diseases from the perspective of regulating intestinal flora in the future.