Risk factors for mortality in emphysematous pancreatitis

Autor: Chin-Yao Chou, Hsiu-Wu Yang, Chen-Wang Chang, Yu-Jang Su
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Drug Assessment
ISSN: 2155-6660
DOI: 10.1080/21556660.2019.1684927
Popis: Objective: To investigate the difference in the characteristics between patients with emphysematous pancreatitis (EP) who survived and those who died. Methods: PubMed search was performed to gather EP cases from March 1959 to February 2019. Forty-two articles with 58 EP cases were identified and met the study’s inclusion criteria. The elderly were defined as individuals aged >65 years. Data on patients’ demographics, clinical symptoms, laboratory results, treatments, outcomes, and mortality were collected and analyzed by chi-square test and Student’s t-test. p-Value
Databáze: OpenAIRE