Interleukins and inflammatory markers are useful in predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis

Serum markers in the early assessment of severity of acute pancreatitis: which is the most useful?

Assessment of PANC3 Score in Predicting Severity of Acute Pancreatitis

INTRODUCTION Acute pancreatitis is inflammatory process of the pancreas associated with local and systemic complications. At present, there are lots of scores (such as Ransons, APACHE II, bedside index for severity in acute pancreatitis) that help us in predicting severity at the time of admission but these are time consuming or require complex calculation and are costly. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

serum inflammatory markers in the elderly: are they useful in differentiating sepsis from sirs?

differentiating sepsis from other noninfectious causes of systemic inflammation is often difficult in the elderly. the aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of c-reactive protein (crp), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr), procalcitonin (pct), and interleukin-6 (il-6) to identify elderly patients with sepsis. in this single center prospective observational study, we included all consec...

Resistin: New serum marker for predicting severity of acute pancreatitis

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of resistin in predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis. METHODS Patients with acute pancreatitis who presented at the Gastroenterology Clinic, Erzurum Education and Research Hospital, Turkey were enrolled in this prospective study. White blood cell (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP) and resistin levels were measured on admission and at 24 h, day 3 and ...

Predicting Acute Pancreatitis Severity: Comparison of Prognostic Scores

BACKGROUND Acute pancreatitis has a broad clinical spectrum, from mild illness to multiple organ failure and death. Prognostic scores have been developed or adapted to predict disease severity. This study aimed to compare the prognostic scores according to sensitivity and specificity, receiver operating characteristic curves and area under the curve. Statistical correlation with disease severit...