Outcome assessment in acute pancreatitis patients

Outcome assessment in acute pancreatitis patients.

Early diagnosis and severity evaluation in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) are very important due to its potential morbidity and mortality. Several clinical, laboratory, and radiologic factors, and many scoring systems have been proposed for outcome prediction. Although the Ranson and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scoring systems have been widely used for decades, the ...

Nutrition Assessment and Therapy in Acute Pancreatitis

Risk factors and outcome of acute renal failure in patients with severe acute pancreatitis.

OBJECTIVE Acute renal failure (ARF) is one of the most common causes of death in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). Here, we aimed to investigate the risk factors of ARF in patients with SAP, assess the prognosis of patients with SAP and ARF, and seek potential measures to prevent ARF. METHOD A cross-sectional study was performed to analyze the data from patients with SAP. Both un...

Outcome Prediction and Quality of Life in Severe Acute Pancreatitis

7 7 1. ABSTRACT Prognosis in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) Background. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common abdominal disorder with a severity varying from mild to fatal disease. Survival of patients with AP, and particularly in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), is related to a combination of therapy-associated and patient-related factors. Predicting an individual patient's outcome remains prob...

Nutrition in patients with acute pancreatitis.

Acute pancreatitis is a disease with varying severity. Patients with the mild form do not require nutritional support because oral intake is resumed rapidly. Studies on nutritional support in acute pancreatitis have included patients with both mild and severe disease. In this heterogeneous group, total parenteral nutrition did not improve outcome compared with no nutrition at all. This is cause...