Pancreatitis is inflammation of pancreas and caused by a number of factors including
pancreatic duct obstruction, alcoholism, and mutation in the cationic trypsinogen gene …

Background: The systemic manifestations of acute pancreatitis are responsible for the
majority of pancreatitis-associated morbidity and mortality and are now believed to be due to …

Efforts to unravel the events in the evolution of tissue damage in acute pancreatitis have
shown a number of inflammatory mediators to be involved. The pathways of damage are …

BACKGROUND The time course and relationship between circulating and local cytokine
concentrations, pancreatic inflammation, and organ dysfunction in acute pancreatitis are …

Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in acute pancreatitis
still represents a substantial problem, with a mortality rate in the range of 30%-40%. The …

Background: Death from acute pancreatitis within the first week after admission is usually a
consequence of multiple organ dysfunction. Reports from specialist centres suggest that …

Acute pancreatitis is a potentially life threatening disease. The spectrum of severity of the
illness ranges from mild self‐limiting disease to a highly fatal severe necrotizing pancreatitis …

MATERIALS AND METHODS The search words “acute pancreatitis,”“intestine,”“gut,”“
translocation,”“endotoxin,”“permeability,”“infection,” and “bacteria” were used to review all …

Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is an acute abdominal disease with the strong systemic
inflammatory response, and rapidly progresses from a local pancreatic damage into multiple …

OBJECTIVE: A study was designed to reevaluate hemoconcentration as an early marker of
severe and/or necrotizing pancreatitis and compare it against contrast-enhanced CT, the …