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Acute Pancreatitis

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While the precise etiology of acute pancreatitis is not known, a variety of inciting factors have been identified (Table 39.1). Alcoholism and biliary tract disease are the processes most commonly associated with pancreatitis. Together they account for 80% of cases of acute pancreatitis. The number of patients with idiopathic pancreatitis depends on the extent to which rarer causes are searched for.

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  1. University of London, London WC1, UK

    Jack Tinker BSc, FRCP, FRCS, DIC (Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician) (Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician)

  2. The Middlesex Hospital, London W1, UK

    Jack Tinker BSc, FRCP, FRCS, DIC (Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician) (Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician)

  3. Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Warren M. Zapol MD (Professor of Anaesthesia) (Professor of Anaesthesia)

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Rattner, D.W., Warshaw, A.L. (1992). Acute Pancreatitis. In: Tinker, J., Zapol, W.M. (eds) Care of the Critically Ill Patient. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3400-8_39

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