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Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2019, Pages 158 - 162

Acute Pancreatitis: An Exploratory, Cross-sectional, Single-center Study of the Epidemiological Features of the Disease in a Sample of Saudi Patients

Authors
Abed Al Lehibi*, Mohammad Abdullah Wani, Abdullah Al Mtawa, Shameem Ahmad, Tauseef Azhar, Khalid Al Sayari, Abdullah Al Khathlan, Ahmad Al Eid, Adel Qutub, Ahmad Al Ghamdi, Areej Al Balkhi
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding author. Email: aallehibi@kfmc.med.sa
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Abed Al Lehibi
Received 7 February 2019, Accepted 20 May 2019, Available Online 1 June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/jegh.k.190524.001How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Acute pancreatitis; epidemiology; etiologies; mortality; Saudi Arabia
Abstract

Epidemiological studies on Acute Pancreatitis (AP) are significantly scarce in the Saudi Arabian Literature. In this paper, we aim to explore the current trends of AP in a sample of Saudi patients. This is a cross-sectional study in which we reviewed AP-related admissions from 2014 to 2017. Data collected included demographics, clinical presentation, investigations, severity, complications, and the outcome at the end of hospitalization. During the study period, 107 patients were admitted due to AP. Fifty-seven (53%) were males. Biliary pancreatitis was the most common etiology found among our patients (39.3%; 95% CI: 30.5–48.7), followed by alcoholic pancreatitis (11.2%; 95% CI: 6.5–18.6) and hypertriglyceridemia (8%; 95% CI: 4.5–15.2). Pancreatic pseudocysts were the most common complication we found in this series (15%; 95% CI: 9.4–23). Of all the hospitalized patients in this study, eight patients (7.9%) died (95% CI: 3.8–14.1). The number of AP-related admissions and mortality rate appear to have increased as compared with the numbers in earlier national studies. The etiological groups have also changed. As compared with Western/Asian studies, however, there was almost no difference in the epidemiological patterns except for the mortality rate.

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Journal
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue
9 - 3
Pages
158 - 162
Publication Date
2019/06/01
ISSN (Online)
2210-6014
ISSN (Print)
2210-6006
DOI
10.2991/jegh.k.190524.001How to use a DOI?
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© 2019 Atlantis Press International B.V.
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