A comparative study on APACHE-Ⅱ,Balthazar score and Extrapancreatic inflammation on abdominal computed tomography system in predicting the outcome of patients with acute pancreatitis.
- VernacularTitle:APACHE-Ⅱ标准Balthazar分级及胰外炎症评分系统对急性胰腺炎预后的评估价值比较
- Author:
Lemei DONG
;
Wandong HONG
;
Jiansheng WU
;
Hongqing WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
acute pancreatitis;
EPIC;
APACHE-Ⅱ;
balthazar score
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Internal Medicine
2002;0(08):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To assess the value of three clinical diagnostic criteria systems,the APACHE-Ⅱ,Balthazar score and Extrapancreatic inflammation on Abdominal Computed tomography(EPIC) in predicting outcome of patients with acute pancreatitis.Methods One hundred and seventy-eight patients with acute pancreatitis who underwent an abdominal CT scan within 24 h after admission were studied prospectively in the study.To assess the value of predicting severe AP and complications,the APACHE-Ⅱ score,the Balthazar score,EPIC score were calculated and evaluated by calculating receiver operator characteristic(ROC)curves,the sensitivity,the specificity,the Youden Index and the area under the ROC curve.Results 46 of 178 patients developed severe disease.The mean score of the three criteria system was significantly higher in the group of severe AP than the mild AP one(P
