Background The need to accurately classify the severity of patients with acute pancreatitis is
widely acknowledged but some questions pertinent to this remain debatable. The aim of this …

Objective: To develop a new international classification of acute pancreatitis severity on the
basis of a sound conceptual framework, comprehensive review of published evidence, and …

Background The recent development of two different severity classifications for acute
pancreatitis has appropriately raised questions about which should be used. The aim of this …

Abstract Background/Objectives We aim to assess which tools for severity stratification in
acute pancreatitis are used in today's daily clinical practice and to what extent the new …

Acute pancreatitis has been known as a distinct clinical entity since the end of the 19th
century, but its management is still characterised by an absence of specific treatments …

The incidence and prevalence of acute pancreatitis (AP) is increasing over time. The
diagnosis of acute pancreatitis is established by revised Atlanta criteria (2012). Multiple …

Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreatic gland. According to the
Atlanta classification system, there are two forms of acute pancreatitis: mild acute …

Comparison of Different Scoring Systems in Predicting the Severity of Acute Pancreatitis: A
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Fan et al. have reported that a blood urea> 7.4 mmol/L and/or glucose> 11 mmol/L at the
time of admission to hospital detect severe acute pancreatitis with a sensitivity of 76% and …

Background Acute pancreatitis remains as one of the most difficult and challenging digestive
disorder to predict in terms of clinical course and outcome. Every case has an individual …