What is Acute Pancreatitis?
What is Acute Pancreatitis?
- Acute Pancreatitis: Sudden severe inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
Acute Pancreatitis: Introduction
Types of Acute Pancreatitis:
Broader types of Acute Pancreatitis:
How many people get Acute Pancreatitis?
Incidence (annual) of Acute Pancreatitis: 80,000 cases occur in the USA (NIDDK); 17 per 100,000 new cases
Incidence Rate of Acute Pancreatitis: approx 1 in 3,400 or 0.03% or 80,000 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Acute Pancreatitis:
About 80,000 cases occur in the United States
each year; some 20 percent of them are severe.
(Source: excerpt from Pancreatitis: NIDDK)
Incidence of Acute Pancreatitis: 17 new cases per 100,000 people
(1976-88) (Source: excerpt from Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
How serious is Acute Pancreatitis?
Complications of Acute Pancreatitis:
see complications of Acute Pancreatitis
What causes Acute Pancreatitis?
Causes of Acute Pancreatitis: see causes of Acute Pancreatitis
What are the symptoms of Acute Pancreatitis?
Symptoms of Acute Pancreatitis:
see symptoms of Acute Pancreatitis
Complications of Acute Pancreatitis:
see complications of Acute Pancreatitis
Acute Pancreatitis: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Acute Pancreatitis.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Acute Pancreatitis.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Acute Pancreatitis:
see treatments for Acute Pancreatitis
Research for Acute Pancreatitis:
see research for Acute Pancreatitis
Society issues for Acute Pancreatitis
Hospitalization statistics for Acute Pancreatitis:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Acute Pancreatitis:
- 0.14% (18,109) of hospital consultant episodes were for acute pancreatitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 74% of hospital consultant episodes for acute pancreatitis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 62% of hospital consultant episodes for acute pancreatitis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 38% of hospital consultant episodes for acute pancreatitis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Hospitalizations for Acute Pancreatitis: Acute: 125,000 (1987) (Source: excerpt from
Digestive Diseases Statistics: NIDDK)
Organs Affected by Acute Pancreatitis:
Organs and body systems related to Acute Pancreatitis include:
Name and Aliases of Acute Pancreatitis
Main name of condition: Acute Pancreatitis
Other names or spellings for Acute Pancreatitis:
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