Admission risk factors and predictors of moderate or severe pediatric acute pancreatitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pediatric acute pancreatitis (PAP) has an increasing incidence and is now estimated to be almost as common as in adults. Up to 30% of patients with PAP will develop moderate or severe disease course (M/SPAP), characterized by organ failure, local or systemic complications. There is still no consensus regarding on-admission severity prediction in these patients. Our aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of available predictive score systems and parameters, and differences between on-admission parameters in mild and M/SPAP.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search on the 14^th February, 2022 in MEDLINE, Embase and CENTRAL. We performed random-effects meta-analysis of on-admission differences between mild and M/SPAP in laboratory parame

SUBMITTER: Juhasz MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561825 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature