Introduction: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common gastrointestinal disease with a wide
spectrum of severity and morbidity. Developed in 1974, the Ranson score was the first …

Aim To assess the prognostic accuracy of Ranson and APACHE II and III scoring systems in
predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis. Methods One hundred fifty-three patients with …

674 CMAJ, April 5, 2011, 183 (6) several important limitations, such as the requirement for
multiple parameters and the need for an online calculator (versions of which are widely …

Background Acute pancreatitis has a broad clinical spectrum, from mild illness to multiple
organ failure and death. Prognostic scores have been developed or adapted to predict …

Early diagnosis and severity evaluation in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) are very
important due to its potential morbidity and mortality. Several clinical, laboratory, and …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the utility of selected scales to prognosticate the severity and risk
for death among patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) according to the revised Atlanta …

AIM: To investigate the prognostic usefulness of several existing scoring systems in
predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis (AP). METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed …

Objective: In this review, we focus on studies that examined such prognostic indices in
relation to predicting a fatal outcome from pancreatitis. Summary Background Data: Acute …

Assessment of severity and prognosis in acute pancreatitis was originally driven by
clinicians' needs for the prediction of outcome, together with the requirement of researchers …

Methods We conducted a retrospective review of patients treated for AP from July 2009 to
September 2016. Final severity was determined using the revised Atlanta classification …