CONTEXT Current management of gallstone pancreatitis in a university hospital. OBJECTIVE Comparison of current management of gallstone pancreatitis with recommendations in national guidelines. SETTING Tertiary care centre in Scotland. SUBJECTS One-hundred consecutive patients admitted with gallstone pancreatitis. METHODS All patients that presented with gallstone pancreatitis over a 4-y...

Pancreatitis is the inflammatory disease of pancreas induced by unusual food habit, alcohol abuse, and genetic defect in cationic trypsinogen gene. Initial occurrences are termed as acute pancreatitis and if proper consideration is not provided then leads to the chronic pancreatitis followed by fibrosis. During the complex process of pancreatitis several pro-inflammatory cells, cytokines and ch...

CONTEXT Acute pancreatitis is a common inflammatory disorder of the pancreas. Within the past decade our ability to diagnose and treat complications of acute pancreatitis has improved. Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic technology it is unclear whether we have been able to impact health related outcomes of acute pancreatitis such as incidence and mortality. OBJECTIVE The aim of th...

Introduction: Acute Pancreatitis is a common disease in our region. It can range from mild to severe with high mortality rate. critical identify patients who are at risk for course, since they require close monitoring and immediate aggressive treatment.
 Aims: To compare the effectiveness of Harmless Score Ranson’s scoring system predicting severity Pancreatitis.
 Methods: A prospecti...

Abstract Objectives The purpose of this study was to comprehensively assess the heterogeneity procedures in diagnostic guidelines for acute pancreatitis and identify gaps limiting knowledge diagnosing disease. Methods A systematic search a number databases performed determine diagnosis patients with severe pancreatitis. were evaluated by AGREE II. Measurement Scale Rate Agreement (MSRA) used (2...

Possibly, acute esophagitis and pancreatitis cause each other, and we focused on sphincteric failure as the common causative key able to induce either esophagitis and acute pancreatitis or both of them, and thereby investigate the presence of a common therapy nominator. This may be an anti-ulcer pentadecapeptide BPC 157 (tested for inflammatory bowel disease, wound treatment) affecting esophagi...

Diagnosis of pancreatitis is based on the determination of serum amylase and lipase levels. However, recent identification of specific leptin receptors in the pancreas suggests that this peptide may also play some roles in the modulation of pancreatic function. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between serum leptin levels and pancreatitis. Thirty male Wistar...

Viral studies were performed on sera from 54 patients with recent acute pancreatitis, 10 with recurrent acute pancreatitis, seven with chronic pancreatitis, and 10 with pancreatic carcinoma, and on sera from 81 age- and sex-matched controls. In 29 of the acute pancreatitis patients from whom paired sera were obtained no convincing evidence of recent viral infection was found. A higher incidence...

Hereditary pancreatitis has recently emerged as an important pancreatic disease. Although relatively rare, this genetic disorder has provided major breakthroughs in our understanding of acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, study of this disorder promises additional insights into the pathophysiology of human pancreatitis, new strategies for developing animal models ...

More than 220,000 patients are admitted to hospital each year with acute pancreatitis in the United States alone.1 The most common etiology of acute pancreatitis is gallstones. This chapter will focus on diagnostic and management issues related to acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP). Differentiating gallstone-induced acute pancreatitis from other etiologies (alcohol, medication induced, hypertrigl...