Dear Editor,

I read the letter from A.C. Ariffin et al. with great interest. Thanks for their interest in our article. As they mentioned in their letter, positive findings for acute pancreatitis (AP) on computed tomography (CT) is one of the three diagnostic criteria for AP [1]. So, CT is still an important imaging modality for the diagnosis of AP.

We have also mentioned in our article that American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) guidelines do not recommend the routine use of contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) in patients with AP and recommends the use of CECT for the patients for whom the diagnosis is unclear or who fail to improve clinically within the first 48–72 h of admission [2, 3], but as different studies have noted and we have faced in our clinical daily routine, the majority of patients underwent CECT in the emergency department (ED) or within 24 h of admission [3, 4]. Most of the CECTs are interpreted by Emergency Physicians (EPs) initially in our ED especially in nightshifts. We aimed to evaluate this problem that we routinely encountered in a scientific way and see that our interpretations made by EPs are sufficient or not in our article. The indications for early CECT are beyond the topic of our article.