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Severe Acute Pancreatitis and Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Critical Care Clinics, 2016
Acute pancreatitis results in nearly 250,000 admissions annually. Acute pancreatitis varies widely in its clinical presentation. Pancreatic necrosis accounts for substantial additional morbidity, with mortality rates remaining as high as 10% to 20% despite advances in critical care.
Rahul, Maheshwari, Ram M, Subramanian
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Acute necrotizing pancreatitis

The American Journal of Digestive Diseases, 1974
A simple, easily reproducible model of experimental pancreatitis is presented. By means of a catheter implanted in the pancreas, interstitial injections were performed in order to produce acute pancreatitis in guinea pigs. Injection of a sodium taurocholate solution with 50 mg/ml cephalothin produced lethal necrotizing pancreatitis similar to that ...
J B, Bawnik, R, Orda, T, Wiznitzer
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Lactoferrin in Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Digestion, 2009
Lactoferrin, as measured in the pancreatic juice, has been thought to be of diagnostic value in chronic pancreatitis, but due to the hazards in cannulation of the pancreatic duct in the acute phase of pancreatitis the behavior of lactoferrin has remained obscure.
I, Nordback, O, Teerenhovi, P, Vilja, T, Koivula, A, Harmoinen, O, Auvinen   +5 more
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Managing severe acute and necrotizing pancreatitis

JAAPA, 2022
ABSTRACT Acute pancreatitis is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders requiring hospitalization. This article describes current concepts in the diagnosis and management of severe acute and necrotizing pancreatitis.
Alizabeth, Van Wieren, Michelle, Guild, Nicole, Raucci, Sharon, Meyer   +3 more
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Nonsurgical Treatment of Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Pancreas, 1996
Our objective was to analyze conservative management in a large series of acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP) patients in a specialized center for pancreatic disease in the Internal Medicine and Emergency Department of a 1,500-bed hospital. One hundred ninety-nine patients with ANP were considered (mean age, 55.4 +/- 18.2 years; biliary etiology, 60.3%
G, Uomo, M, Visconti, G, Manes, F, Calise, M, Laccetti, P G, Rabitti   +5 more
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Surgical intervention in acute necrotizing pancreatitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1974
Abstract Thirty-eight patients with acute pancreatitis were treated with an operation that included cholecystostomy, gastrostomy, feeding jejunostomy, and sump drainage of the peripancreatic lesser sac. Of eleven patients judged to be dying of fulminant pancreatitis in the first forty-eight hours of treatment, nine improved immediately and seven ...
A L, Warshaw, A L, Imbembo, J M, Civetta, W M, Daggett   +3 more
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Laparoscopic necrosectomy for acute necrotizing pancreatitis

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, 2001
Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), a disease state that is often complicated by an intricate pathologic process, has remained difficult to manage and is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Approximately 80% of patients have a mild form of the disease, while the other 20% develop a severe life-threatening form of the disease.
V N, Pamoukian, M, Gagner
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Pancreatogastrostomy in experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis

International journal of pancreatology, 1990
Experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis was induced retrogradely in dogs with sunflower oil injected intraductally. Then, a zipper was sutured into the abdominal wound. From the first postoperative day, three different treatments were started: first group: only conservative therapy was used; second group: removal of necrotized tissue and single ...
D, Kelemen, B, Török
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Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

2016
Acute necrotizing pancreatitis remains a significant problem with significant morbidity and mortality. Keys to management include proper diagnosis, admission to the intensive care unit, aggressive resuscitation, and a multidisciplinary approach for management options. The care team should include a designated surgeon, gastroenterologists with expertise
Mayur Narayan, Jose J Diaz
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[Acute necrotizing pancreatitis].

Casopis lekaru ceskych, 2001
Acute pancreatitis ranges from mild to severe necrotizing form complicated by multiorgan failure with high mortality rate. It has different causes, not entirely clear pathogenesis and unpredictable and variable course. Therapeutic measures are limited. The mainstay of therapy is supportive intensive care, prevention of sepsis and multiple organ failure
J, Bĕlohlávek, M, Hrubý, F, Polák
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