Péter J Hegyi, Alexandra Soós, Emese Tóth, Attila Ébert, Viktória Venglovecz, Katalin Márta, Péter Mátrai, Alexandra Mikó, Judit Bajor, Patrícia Sarlós, Áron Vincze, Adrienn Halász, Ferenc Izbéki, Zoltán Szepes, László Czakó, György Kovács, Mária Papp, Zsolt Dubravcsik, Márta Varga, József Hamvas, Balázs C Németh, Melania Macarie, Ali Tüzün Ince, Dmitry S Bordin, Elena A Dubtsova, Mariya A Kiryukova, Igor E Khatkov, Tanya Bideeva, Artautas Mickevicius, Elena Ramírez-Maldonado, Ville Sallinen, Bálint Erőss, Dániel Pécsi, Andrea Szentesi, Andrea Párniczky, László Tiszlavicz, Péter Hegyi
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is an end-stage disease with no specific therapy; therefore, an early diagnosis is of crucial importance. In this study, data from 1315 and 318 patients were analysed from acute pancreatitis (AP) and CP registries, respectively. The population from the AP registry was divided into AP (n = 983), recurrent AP (RAP, n = 270) and CP (n = 62) groups. The prevalence of CP in combination with AP, RAP2, RAP3, RAP4 and RAP5 + was 0%, 1%, 16%, 50% and 47%, respectively, suggesting that three or more episodes of AP is a strong risk factor for CP...
January 14, 2021: Scientific Reports