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Acute pancreatitis

Published on May 30, 2024   46 min

A selection of talks on Clinical Practice

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I'm Davor Stimac, Professor of Gastroenterology. I'm coming from Rijeka, Croatia. Today, I will talk about acute pancreatitis.
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Acute pancreatitis by definition is an inflammatory process of the pancreas with variable involvement of other regional tissues or remote organ systems.
0:32
According to the incidence of acute pancreatitis, today, the global incidence from the data taken from 204 countries, is 33.7 per 100,000. On this world map, you can see that it differs from country to country. From some, where it is 8 per 100,000 up to those where it is nearly 200 per 100,000.
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According to a meta-analysis through the last 56 years, published in 2022 by Iannuzzi and co-authors, we can see that the global incidence of acute pancreatitis is increasing at 3% per year.
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If we're talking about the etiology of acute pancreatitis, in the first place, the most common etiology is biliary. More than 50% of patients have a biliary cause of acute pancreatitis. Roughly 30% have alcohol as an etiological cause of acute pancreatitis. 20% is due to some other etiologies like hypertriglyceridemia and some others.