The purpose of this retrospective study was to characterize the changes in organ dysfunction among patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis complicated by sepsis who underwent open necrosectomy.
Patients 18 years or older
Diagnosis of Acute pancreatitis according to the revised Atlanta classification, requires two of thefollowing three criteria: (A) typical abdominal pain, (B) an increase in serum amylase or lipaselevels higher than three times the upper limit of normality, and (C) signs of AP in imaging3)Patients with confirmed or suspected infected pancreatic or peripancreatic necrosis werescheduled for open necrosectomy
Meet Sepsis-3 criteria
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