Active clinical trials for "Pancreatitis"

To compare the prognosis of acute pancreatitis between geriatric and other adult patients To evaluate the efficacy of various prognostic scores in geriatric patients with acute pancreatitis

The purpose of this study is to conduct a pilot test of an abdominal acoustic sensor on patients with acute pancreatitis to determine the correlation of acoustic signals with symptoms reported by the patient.

This is a follow-up study focusing on long-term complications of acute pancreatitis. The primary purposes include: 1. To assess the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus（2-DM）,impaired glucose tolerance, metabolic abnormalities of blood lipids after acute pancreatitis. 2. To observe the possible long-term clinical outcomes after acute pancreatitis attack, which may include: chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, pancreatogenic portal hypertension, autoimmune pancreatitis et al. 3. To evaluate the long-term influence of acute lung injury(PaO2/FiO2<200,FiO2 means fraction of inspiration O2) in AP patients during ICU stay on life qualities of the patients; 4. To observe the prognosis of the local complications of acute pancreatitis(AP) patients; it might be helpful to find the most effective and targeted interventions aiming at different phases after AP attack.

Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive inflammatory condition where progressive fibrosis and calcification results in loss of physiological pancreatic function (both endocrine and exocrine). The structural, fibrotic changes of chronic pancreatitis can only be seen in advanced disease with conventional radiology tests and the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis early in the disease course remains challenging. Early diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis can prevent the complications of pain and malnutrition and improve the quality of life of patients. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has recently become a favoured method for diagnosing early structural fibrotic changes of chronic pancreatitis in clinical practice; however this technique is subjective with sub-optimal intra-observer agreement. A new technique called elastography, performed during EUS, quantitatively measures tissue stiffness which may give more reliable results. This study aims to assess whether EUS elastography can accurately identify for chronic pancreatitis. Patients referred for EUS examinations will be identified and recruited prospectively. The investigators will perform endoscopic ultrasound examinations with elastography readings in two groups of patients: those referred for EUS with suspicion of chronic pancreatitis and those referred for EUS for assessment of abdominal pain without risk factors or any other tests suggesting chronic pancreatitis. The elastography readings will then be compared to the gold standard which is a composite evaluation including standard EUS examination using morphological appearance (Rosemont classification), and other tests already performed including cross-sectional imaging (MRCP and CT), patient history and faecal pancreatic elastase (FEL-1). Patients will be identified and data collected prospectively. There is no randomization or blinding involved in the study as the endoscopists will need to be aware of the indication for referral in order to carry out a complete examination.

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a multifactorial disease. AP represents a significant number of hospital admissions. Most of the patients are admitted in an acute setting. Early identification of its etiology is an essential step toward the rational approach, both for its implications in the immediate therapy and the prevention of recurrence. Although often obvious, the etiological workup of acute pancreatitis can be challenging.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether acute pancreatitis results in increased endocrine dysfunction or not? To evaluate whether severity of acute pancreatitis have an impact on the development of endocrine dysfunction or not? 1.4 MATERIALS AND METHODS:- Definitions … 1) Acute pancreatitis…..Acute pancreatitis is best defined clinically by a patient presenting with 2 of the following 3 criteria: (1) symptoms(e.g., epigastric pain) consistent with pancreatitis, (2) a serum amylase or lipase level greater than 3 times the laboratory's upper limit of normal, and (3) radiologic imaging consistent with pancreatitis, usually using CT or MRI.The AtlantaCriteria revision of 2012 classifies severity as mild, moderately severe, or severe. Mild acute pancreatitis has no organ failure, no local or systemic complications.Moderately-severe acute pancreatitis is defined by the presence of transient organ failure (lasting <48 hours) and/or local complications.Severe acute pancreatitis is defined by persistent organ failure (lasting >48 hours). Local complications include peripancreatic fluid collections, pancreatic and peripancreatic necrosis (sterile or infected), pseudocyst, and walled-offnecrosis (sterile or infected) . Prediabetes/Diabetes….Prediabetes is defined by fasting blood glucose (FBG ≥(100 mg/dL) and <(126 mg/dL),and/or 2 h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) criteria as >/ (140 mg/dL) and < (200 mg/dL)) or HbA1c of 5.7% to 6.4%. DM is defined as (FBG ≥ (126 mg/dL) or 2 hOGTT ≥ (200 mg/dL)or HbA1c value>/ 6.5% ,treatment with insulin, oral hypoglycaemic agents or specific dietary management. Diagnosis of diabetes in asymptomatic patients is established by presence of abnormal test results in 2 out of 3 parameters used(FBG,OGTT or HbA1c) or if only one test result is abnormal ,needs to be confirmed on next day or few days later by repeat testing of the specific parameter. Study design :- Single center ,prospective cohort study performed at a tertiary care centre (Asian institute of gastroenterology , Hyderabad) from Feb 2019 to May 2020. Participant recruitment procedures…. Patient enrollment from Feb 2019 to May 2019 & follow up of each case upto 1 year, upto May 2020(1 year follow up). Primary outcome-Development of endocrine dysfunction (diabetes & prediabetes) after acute pancreatitis Secondary outcomes-Whether severity of acute pancreatitis correlate with development of diabetes & prediabetes.

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas, most commonly caused by gallstones, or excessive use of alcohol. It represents a management challenge and a significant healthcare burden. The incidence of AP ranges globally from 5 to 30 cases per 100.000 inhabitants/year, and there is evidence that the incidence has been rising in recent years. The overall case-fatality rate for AP is roughly 5%, and it is expectedly higher for more severe stages of the disease. In most cases (80%), the outcome of AP is rapidly favorable. However, acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP) may develop in up to 20% of cases, and is associated with significant rates of early organ failure (38%), needing some type of surgical/endoscopic intervention (38%) and death (15%). In the United States, AP is a leading cause of inpatient care among gastrointestinal conditions: more than 270.000 patients are hospitalized for AP annually, at an aggregate cost of over 2.5 billion dollars per year. In Europe, the UK incidence of AP is estimated as 15-42 cases per 100.000/year and is rising by 2.7% each year. Despite existing evidence-based practice guidelines for the management of biliary AP, clinical compliance with recommendations is poor, with studies on this field identifying major discrepancies between evidence-based recommendations and daily clinical practice. Audits about biliary AP have been performed in Italy, Germany, France, and England, with quite disappointing results. Indeed, in these audits, the treatment of biliary AP differed substantially from the recommendations. For example, less than 15% of the responders stated that they strictly followed all recommendations included in the guidelines in Germany and 25.8% of patients did not receive definitive treatment for biliary AP within 1 year in the UK. These findings support the view that publication alone of nationally or internationally developed and approved guidelines is insufficient to modify the practice of non-specialists and raises the question of how best to spread guideline recommendations. In 2020, the spread of the virus Covid-19 has represented a pandemic that also had a profound impact on the surgical community. There are many ways through which the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic could have influenced daily clinical practice for patients with biliary AP also leading to a failure to adhere to the recommendations coming from the guidelines, especially those regarding the early and definitive treatment with cholecystectomy or ERCP and sphincterotomy. First of all, the recommendation to postpone all non-urgent endoscopic procedures during the peak of the pandemic. Second, the recommendation to conservatively treat inflammatory conditions such as acute cholecystitis and acute appendicitis wherever possible. Since the clinical compliance with recommendations about AP is poor and the impact of implementing guideline recommendations in biliary AP has not been well studied on a global basis, we launched the MANCTRA-1 study with the aim to demonstrate areas where there is currently a sub-optimal implementation of contemporary guidelines on biliary AP. Moreover, we argue that during the Covid-19 pandemic the tendency to disregard the guidelines recommendations has been more marked than usual and we will try to find out if AP patients' care during the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a higher rate of adverse outcomes compared to non-pandemic times due to the lack in the compliance of the guidelines. The MANCTRA-1 can identify a number of areas for quality improvement that will require new implementation strategies. Our aim is to summarize the main areas of sub-optimal care to provide the basis for introducing a number of bundles in the management of AP patients to be implemented during the next years. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate which items of the current AP guidelines if disregarded, correlate with negative clinical outcomes according to the different clinical presentations of the disease. Secondary objectives are to assess the compliance of surgeons worldwide to the most up-to-date international guidelines on biliary AP, to evaluate the medical and surgical practice in the management of biliary AP during the non-pandemic (2019) and pandemic Covid-19 periods (2020), and to investigate outcomes of patients with biliary AP treatment during the two study periods.

Observational study about the incidence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients with cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding; in patients with acute peptic gastrointestinal bleeding and without liver disease; and in patients with severe acute pancreatitis. This is a study using pharmaceutical specialties in the approved conditions of use.

In abdomen, the pancreas as a gland is involved in the digestive and endocrine system by secreting digestive enzymes and insulin. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common inflammatory condition of the pancreas with symptoms of sudden abdominal pain and high temperature which may develop to severe complications in some patients. The incidence of AP was roughly 33.74 cases per 100, 000 person-years around the world but varies in different regions which America has the highest incidence of 58.20 cases per 100 000 person-years. There are very few studies published on AP in China, while Japanese national survey in 2011 estimated an incidence rate of 49.4 per 100,000 population and a study in Taiwan showed an annual average incidence of 36.9 per 100,000 persons with a slight change over ten years. In most cases, patient with AP will start to recover within a week, but the patient quality of life (QoL) is still a big concern for disease management. It quantitatively measures the physical, mental and social wellbeing of individuals or their life satisfaction by questionnaires or surveys. Although very few studies have demonstrated the effect of AP on patient QoL, there is accumulating evidence to show its importance. Some studies reported no differences in QoL between AP patients and age-matched healthy people, whereas others showed QoL was significantly impaired due to AP. A large population-based follow-up study is needed to evaluate the impact of acute pancreatitis on quality of life. In addition, as the population investigated in most research was European based, the QoL evaluation of patients after AP among the Chinese population is also essential.

The purpose the research is to demonstrate the feasibility of using a transdermal alcohol sensing device (BACtrack Skyn), and to correlate biological and self-reported alcohol measures with the transdermal alcohol measures in patients with a history of pancreatitis. The results from this study will inform tailored, self-directed interventions for reducing alcohol consumption in persons with pancreatitis.