… In an attempt to decrease the infectious complications of acute pancreatitis … meta-analysis
of all the prospective randomized trials to determine the role of antibiotics in acute pancreatitis…

… The most common cause of death in these patients is infection of pancreatic necrosis by …
severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) we performed an updated systematic review and meta-analysis …

Background Gallstones and alcohol are currently the most frequent aetiologies of acute
pancreatitis (AP). The aim of this study is to quantify these aetiologies worldwide, by geographic …

… meta-analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the global incidence of acute pancreatitis
… More studies are needed to better define the changing incidence of acute pancreatitis in …

… the severity of acute pancreatitis, but only two articles in our analysis reported the Ranson's
… Severe acute pancreatitis is usually defined as any acute pancreatitis accompanied by a …

… The main causes of acute pancreatitis (AP) are biliary disease, alcohol consumption, … The
aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effects of these aetiological factors on the severity …

… 9997 patients with acute pancreatitis were included (19 articles) in this analysis. We found
that AP patients with a BMI > 25 have a significantly increased risk of SAP with an OR of 2.87. …

… Only RCTs evaluating the use of pre-, pro- or synbiotics in patients with acute pancreatitis
were included in this review. The trials should have at lease one of the followings as a primary …

… focuses on probiotics in patients with severe acute pancreatitis. It assesses whether enteral
feeding with probiotics use reduces infected necrosis and death in severe acute pancreatitis. …

… We carried out the present meta-analysis because it was our aim to assess this … in our
meta-analysis we could not confirm that obesity is a factor predicting mortality in acute pancreatitis. …