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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2024

Early prediction and prevention of infected pancreatic necrosis.

Cheng Lv, Zi-Xiong Zhang, Lu Ke

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Acute pancreatitis: mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  3. Diagnosis of infected pancreatic necrosis: A review of the role of blood biomarkers.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cheng LvDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China.
Zi-Xiong ZhangDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China.
Lu KeDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China.
Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Approximately 20%-30% of patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis develop infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN), a highly morbid and potentially lethal complication. Early identification of patients at high risk of IPN may facilitate appropriate preventive measures to improve clinical outcomes. In the past two decades, several markers and predictive tools have been proposed and evaluated for this purpose. Conventional biomarkers like C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lymphocyte count, interleukin-6, and interleukin-8, and newly developed biomarkers like angiopoietin-2 all showed significant association with IPN. On the other hand, scoring systems like the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and Pancreatitis Activity Scoring System have also been tested, and the results showed that they may provide better accuracy. For early prevention of IPN, several new therapies were tested, including early enteral nutrition, antibiotics, probiotics, immune enhancement,

Indexed as

Pancreatitis, Acute NecrotizingAcute DiseaseBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinHumansNecrosisTreatment OutcomeBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinAcute pancreatitisAntibioticsBiomarkerImmune enhancement therapyInfected pancreatic necrosisNutrition therapyProbioticsScoring systemSelective digestive decontamination

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PMID38577189
PMCPMC10989483
OpenAlexW4392461756

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