Insulin and Heparin Therapies in Acute Pancreatitis due to Hypertriglyceridemia
| Autor: | Engin Altinkaya, Ahmet Aktaş |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Abdominal pain medicine.medical_treatment Gastroenterology chemistry.chemical_compound Infusion therapy Internal medicine Humans Insulin Medicine Triglycerides Retrospective Studies Hypertriglyceridemia Triglyceride Heparin business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Pancreatitis chemistry Acute Disease Acute pancreatitis medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. 31:1337-1340 |
| ISSN: | 1681-7168 1022-386X |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE To compare insulin infusion and heparin infusion, used to treat hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis in terms of efficacy. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Gastroenterology, Division of Internal Disease, Sivas Cumhuriyet University Hospital, Sivas, Turkey, from 1st January 2013 to 1st January 2020. METHODOLOGY Patients who presented with abdominal pain and were found to have edematous pancreatitis on computed tomography imaging were retrospectively reviewed. Thirty-six patients with hypertriglyceridemia were included. Eighteen of the patients were given insulin infusion, while the other 18 were given heparin infusion therapy. The patients' gender, age, admission amylase values, AST, ALT, total cholesterol, glucose, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), CRP, leukocyte, pre-treatment and post-treatment first, second, and third-day triglyceride levels were recorded from the files. RESULTS The post-treatment third-day triglyceride levels of the insulin therapy group were statistically significantly lower compared to the heparin therapy group (432.5; 984, p |
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