Acute Pancreatitis: Study of Possible Etiologies and Risk Factors Affecting Outcome

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pancreatitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03601325

Acute pancreatitis

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to assess the frequency of different etiologies of acute pancreatitis in our locality & assess the effect of different risk factors on outcome of the patients.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of acute pancreatitis according to the following: the presence of two of the three following criteria:

• abdominal pain consistent with the disease
• serum amylase and or lipase greater than three times the upper limit of normal
• characteristic findings from abdominal imaging Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CECT) and or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pancreas

Exclusion criteria

• No exclusion criteria .