Prediction of Self-Limited Acute Pancreatitis Cases at Admission to Emergency Unit

Severe acute biliary pancreatitis requiring Intensive Care Unit admission: Evaluation of severity score for the prediction of morbidity and mortality

Severity of pancreatitis is an important consideration for ED clinicians making admission judgments. The early identification of severe AP is important for the management and for improving outcomes. Validated scoring systems can be a helpful tool in this process. A multitude of predictive models has been developed to predict the severity of AP based on clinical, laboratory, and radiologic risk ...

Infectious cases of acute pancreatitis

Ninety eight percent of patients present with abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting (25%), while laboratory investigation reveals raised serum and urinary pancreatic enzymes. Imaging methods such as abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography, have high diagnostic accuracy (80%). However the diagnostic method of choice is ERCP which shows not only the exact site, but the number of parasites a...

Management of acute pancreatitis in emergency.

This review focuses on the medical and endoscopic approachs to patients with acute mild or severe pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas whose the main determinant of the outcome is the extent of pancreatic necrosis. After the diagnosis, a severity assessment using scoring systems and early contrast enhanced Computed Tomography should be performed in a...

Prediction of Severity in Acute Pancreatitis

Admission laboratory data of 203 patients suffering from acute pancreatitis were analysed to search for a simpler method of prediction of severity than the traditional multifactor prognostic scoring system. By discriminant analysis, admission serum urea and plasma glucose were identified to be factors with independent significance in predicting severity. If the presence of either factor higher ...

Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis: A Diagnostic Clue to Primary Hyperparathyroidism