Management of children with acute pancreatitis: An intensivist perspective

• Главные авторы: Maninder Singh Dhaliwal (Автор), Veena Raghunathan (Автор), Deepak Goyal (Автор), Shaun Siong Chung Ho (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in children is slowly increasing. Etiological pattern of AP in children is varied and unlike adults; it mainly includes trauma, infection, medications and idiopathic causes. AP is characterised by severe abdominal pain, 3 fold elevation in amylase and/or lipa...