Efficacy of Serum Nitric Oxide Level Estimation in Assessing the Severity of Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Pancreatology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 506-514

  Mettu, Srinivas Reddy ^a   Wig, Jai Dev ^a   Khullar, Madhu ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^a   Gupta, Rajesh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis; APACHE II score; Computerized tomography severity score (CTSS); Nitric oxide; Pancreatic necrosis

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1342312227     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076021     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Ranson JH: Acute pancreatitis; in Zinner MJ, Schwartz SI, Ellis H (eds): Abdominal Operations. Norwalk, Appleton & Lange, 1997, chap 70.
2. Kingsnorth A: Role of cytokines and their inhibitors in acute pancreatitis. Gut 1997;40:1-4.
3. Bradley L: A clinically based classification system for acute pancreatitis: Summary of the International Symposium on Acute Pancreatitis, Atlanta 1992. Arch Surg 1993;128:586-590.
4. Balthazar EJ, Robinson DL, Megebow AJ, et al: Acute pancreatitis: Value of CT in establishing prognosis. Radiology 1990;174:331-336.
5. Windsor JA, Fearon KC, Ross JA, et al: Role of serum endotoxin and antiendotoxin core antibody levels in predicting the development of multiple organ failure in acute pancreatitis. Br J Surg 1993;80:1042-1046.
6. Raraty MG, Neoptolemos JP, Slavin J, et al: Urinary trypsinogen activation peptide is a reliable early predictor of severity in acute pancreatitis. Br J Surg 2000;87:674.
7. Kuo PC, Schroeder RA: The emerging multifaceted role of nitric oxide. Ann Surg 1995;221:220-235.
8. Kanner J, Harrel S, Granit R: Nitric oxide as an antioxidant. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991;289:130-136.
9. Werner J, Fernandez-del Castillo C, Rivera JA, et al: On the protective mechanisms of nitric oxide in acute pancreatitis. Gut 1998;43:401-407.
10. Dabrowski A, Gabryelewicz A: Nitric oxide contributes to multiorgan oxidation stress in acute experimental pancreatitis. Scand J Gastroenterol 1994;29:943-948.
11. Mishima S, Xu D, Lu Q, et al: Relationship among nitric oxide production, bacterial translocation and intestinal injury after endotoxin challenge in vivo. J Trauma 1998;44:175-182.
12. Balthazar EJ: CT diagnosis and staging of acute pancreatitis. Radiol Clin North Am 1989;27:19-37.
13. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Douglas P, et al: APACHE II: A severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985;13:818-828.
14. Bone RC, Balk RA, Cerra FB, et al: American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference: Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. Chest 1992;101:1644-1655.
15. Ding AH, Nathan CF, Stuehs DJ: Release of reactive nitrogen intermediates and reactive oxygen species from mouse peritoneal macrophages: Comparison of activity of cytokines and evidence of independent production. J Immunol 1988;141:2407-2412.
16. Isenmann R, Rau B, Beger HG: Bacterial infection and extent of necrosis and determinants or organ failure in patients with acute necrotising pancreatitis. Br J Surg 1999;86:1020-1024.
17. Lomis TJ, Siffring CW, Chalasani S, et al: Nitric oxide synthase inhibitors prevent the progressive and severe hypotension in the rat model of pancreatitis. Am Surg 1995;61:17-10.
18. Werner J, Rivera J, Fernandez-del Castillo C, et al: Differing roles of nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of acute edematous versus necrotizing pancreatitis. Surgery 1997;121:23-30.
19. Al-Mufti RA, Williamson RC, Mathie RT: Increased nitric oxide activity in a rat model of acute pancreatitis. Gut 1998;43:564-570.
20. Ayub K, Serracino-Inglott F, Williamson RC, et al: Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase contributes to the development of pancreatitis following pancreatic ischaemia and reperfusion. Br J Surg 2001;88:1189-1193.
21. Ayub K, Williamson RC, Mathie RT: L-N6-(1-iminoethyl)-lysine decreases severity of acute pancreatitis and associated haemodynamic changes. Br J Surg 2001;88(suppl 1):14.
22. Al-Mufti RA, Williamson RC, Mathie RT: The effect of inhibition of nitric oxide synthase using MEG on the outcome of severe pancreatitis. Br J Surg 2001;88(suppl 1):14.
23. Bose M, Farnia P: Proinflammatory cytokines can significantly induce human mononuclear phagocytes to produce nitric oxide by a cell maturation dependent process. Immunol Lett 1995;48:59-64.
24. Flodstrom M, Chen MC, Smismans A, et al: Interleukin 1beta increases arginine accumulation and activates citrulline-NO cycle in rat pancreatic beta cells. Cytokine 1999;11:400-407.
25. Rahman SH, Ammori BJ, Barclay G, et al: Severe acute pancreatitis is associated with increased systemic nitric oxide: Evidence implicating an endotoxin-mediated response. Br J Surg 2001;88(suppl 1):13.