Markers for predicting severity and progression of acute pancreatitis

Best Practice and Research in Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-90

  Schütte, Kerstin ^b   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

acute pancreatitis; prognosis; severity markers

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CYTOKINE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; PROCALCITONIN; SECRETIN; SERUM AMYLOID A; TRYPSINOGEN ACTIVATION PEPTIDE;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECHOGRAPHY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RANSON SCORE; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 38149109813     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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