Acute pancreatitis: diagnosis and treatment

P Szatmary, T Grammatikopoulos, W Cai, W Huang… - Drugs, 2022 - Springer
Acute pancreatitis is a common indication for hospital admission, increasing in incidence,
including in children, pregnancy and the elderly. Moderately severe acute pancreatitis with …

Multifactorial scores and biomarkers of prognosis of acute pancreatitis: applications to research and practice

P Silva-Vaz, AM Abrantes, M Castelo-Branco… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe inflammation of the pancreas presented with sudden
onset and severe abdominal pain with a high morbidity and mortality rate, if accompanied by …

EASY‐APP: An artificial intelligence model and application for early and easy prediction of severity in acute pancreatitis

B Kui, J Pintér, R Molontay, M Nagy… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a potentially severe or even fatal inflammation of the
pancreas. Early identification of patients at high risk for develo** a severe course of the …

Recent treatment strategies for acute pancreatitis

Y Song, SH Lee - Journal of clinical medicine, 2024 - mdpi.com
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a leading gastrointestinal disease that causes hospitalization.
Initial management in the first 72 h after the diagnosis of AP is pivotal, which can influence …

Persistently high procalcitonin and C-reactive protein are good predictors of infection in acute necrotizing pancreatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Tarján, E Szalai, M Lipp, M Verbói, T Kói… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Infected necrotizing pancreatitis (INP) is associated with an increased risk of organ failure
and mortality. Its early recognition and timely initiation of antibiotic therapy can save patients' …

Lipotoxicity and cytokine storm in severe acute pancreatitis and COVID-19

P Hegyi, Z Szakács, M Sahin-Tóth - Gastroenterology, 2020 - gastrojournal.org
(COVID-19) has become a pandemic affecting> 7 million people worldwide so far. 1 The
relatively high mortality of COVID-19 (around 10% of closed cases) is often linked to …

Hypoalbuminemia affects one third of acute pancreatitis patients and is independently associated with severity and mortality

K Ocskay, Z Vinkó, D Németh, L Szabó, J Bajor… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The incidence and medical costs of acute pancreatitis (AP) are on the rise, and severe cases
still have a 30% mortality rate. We aimed to evaluate hypoalbuminemia as a risk factor and …

Antibiotic stewardship in surgical departments

I Kourbeti, A Kamiliou, M Samarkos - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the leading public health threats of
the 21st century. New evidence underscores its significance in patients' morbidity and …

Construction and validation of machine learning models for sepsis prediction in patients with acute pancreatitis

F Liu, J Yao, C Liu, S Shou - BMC surgery, 2023 - Springer
Background This study aimed to construct predictive models for the risk of sepsis in patients
with Acute pancreatitis (AP) using machine learning methods and compared optimal one …

Glucose levels show independent and dose-dependent association with worsening acute pancreatitis outcomes: Post-hoc analysis of a prospective, international …

A Nagy, MF Juhász, A Görbe, A Váradi, F Izbéki… - Pancreatology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Metabolic risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia are
independent risk factors for the development of various complications in acute pancreatitis …