Clinical, paraclinical pictures and causes of acute pancreatitis
- Author:
Mai Hong Bang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
acute pancreatitis
- MeSH:
Pancreatitis;
Clinical Medicine
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2005;0(10):33-36
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In the study, 166 patients (125 men, 41 women) with acute pancreatitis were treated at Central Military Hospital 108 from August 2003 to August 2005. The common clinical symptoms of acute pancreatitis were epigastrium severe pain 100%, continuous or interrupted pain; localize or spread; fever 51.2%; vomiting 35.5%; abdominal gas 92.8%; peritoneal hypersensitive 92.8%. Among the patients, 90.4% were mild and average; 9.6% were severe. Paraclinical features included a high concentrate of serum and urine amylase (96.4 and 94%, respectively) at different levels that was not relative with the severity; 50% of the patients had big pancreas in ultrasonography. The common causes of acute pancreatitis were big meal with drinking 24.1%, bile stones 13.2%, ascarid in bile tract 9.6% and some other causes; unknown causes 38.7%
