Acute Pancreatitis in Five European Countries: Etiology and Mortality
| Autor: | Lucio Gullo, Gyula Farkas, Constantine Arvanitakis, Paul Georg Lankisch, Hans G. Beger, Marina Migliori, Attila Oláh, Philippe Lévy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Pancreatic disease Adolescent Pancreatitis Alcoholic Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Gastroenterology Endocrinology Cholelithiasis Germany Internal medicine Internal Medicine medicine Humans Biliary pancreatitis Child Aged Aged 80 and over Hungary Greece Hepatology business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Italy Pancreatitis Acute Disease Etiology Alcoholic pancreatitis Acute pancreatitis Female France business Biliary tract disease |
| Zdroj: | Pancreas. 24:223-227 |
| ISSN: | 0885-3177 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00006676-200204000-00003 |
| Popis: | In recent years, many advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of acute pancreatitis that have lead to a significant reduction in both morbidity and mortality; however, knowledge of the etiology and of the relation between etiology and mortality is far from complete.To obtain a more comprehensive view of the etiology and mortality of acute pancreatitis in Europe than has been given by previous single-center studies.The study comprised 1,068 patients in five European countries who were admitted to hospitals for acute pancreatitis from January 1990 to December 1994. Data for each patient were collected on a standardized form.Of the 1,068 patients (692 men, 376 women; mean age, 52.8 years; range, 10-95 years), 589 had edematous pancreatitis, and 479 the necrotic form. Cholelithiasis (37.1%) and alcohol (41.0%) were the most frequent etiologic factors. In Germany, cholelithiasis and alcohol occurred with similar frequency (34.9 and 37.9%, respectively); in Hungary, alcohol predominates over cholelithiasis (60.7 vs. 24.0%); in France, a small predominance of alcohol was seen (38.5 vs. 24.6%); and in Greece and Italy, there was a clear predominance of cholelithiasis over alcohol (71.4 vs. 6.0% and 60.3 vs. 13.2%, respectively). The differences in the frequency of cholelithiasis and alcohol between Greece and Italy and the other countries were statistically significant (p0.01). Eighty-three patients (7.8%) died of acute pancreatitis; 77 (16.1%) had necrotic disease and 6 (1.0%) edematous. There was no statistically significant difference in mortality among the etiologic groups, and no relation was found between mortality and age.Both cholelithiasis and alcohol were main etiologic factors in the more northern countries studied, whereas cholelithiasis alone predominated in the more southern ones. Mortality was high for necrotic pancreatitis; it was similar among the various etiologic groups, and there was no relationship between mortality and age. |
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