Authors’ Reply to ‘Pyogenic Liver Abscess and Risk of Acute Pancreatitis’
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1College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 2Department of Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 3Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 4Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 5Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 6Clinical Informatics & Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
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Pyogenic Liver Abscess and Risk of Acute Pancreatitis
To the Editor: I read with interest the recent article by Lai et al on risk of acute pancreatitis after discharge from hospitalization for pyogenic liver abscess (PLA).1 In this cohort study, the authors found that PLA was associated with an increased risk of acute pancreatitis compared to non-PLA (adjusted hazard ratio 3.00; 95% confidence interval, 2.62–3.43).1 However, the estimate may not b...
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