Study of Prognostic Factors of Acute Pancreatitis in a Teaching Hospital

Authors

  • Md Abdul Ahad Associate Professor, Dept.of Gastroenterology, Khulna Medical College.
  • Kamal Uddin Ahmed Junior Consultant Medicine, General Hospital, Faridpur.
  • SM Kamal Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Khulna Medical College
  • ARM Saifuddin Ekram Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Rajshahi Medical College.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jom.v12i1.6927

Keywords:

Acute Pancreatitis, Prognosis, Mortality

Abstract

This hospital based cross sectional descriptive study was performed to find out the prognostic factors of acute pancreatitis from the available clinical, biochemical, haematological and radiological data. A total of 50 cases were studied. Peak incidence was in the fourth decade. Among the known aetiological factors 18% were due to gallstone disease, 10% alcoholism, 4% pancreatobiliary ascariasis, but 60% were idiopathic. In this study 82% patients were had mild and 18% had severe acute pancreatitis. Overall mortality rate was 6%, mortality was significantly higher (33.33%) in severe acute pancreatitis (33.3% vs 0%). A higher mortality was associated with concomitant medical or surgical diseases, leucocytosis. Other factors associated with a higher mortality were high blood glucose, serum creatinine level and a lower serum albumin and calcium level. This study highlights the need of further study with more detailed recording of relevant data from primary care hospital to find out the clinical pattern of complications and prognostic factors in our country.

Keyword: Acute Pancreatitis; Prognosis; Mortality

DOI: 10.3329/jom.v12i1.6927

J Medicine 2011; 12 : 21-25

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Ahad, M. A., Ahmed, K. U., Kamal, S., & Ekram, A. S. (2011). Study of Prognostic Factors of Acute Pancreatitis in a Teaching Hospital. Journal of Medicine, 12(1), 21–25. https://doi.org/10.3329/jom.v12i1.6927

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2011)

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