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ArticleTurkish journal of medical sciences2025

Comparison of the effectiveness of different scoring systems and biochemical markers in determining the severity and complications of acute pancreatitis.

Ahmet Ali Aktaş, Pınar Taşar, Deniz Siğirli, Sadık Ayhan Kiliçturgay

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Article in Turkish journal of medical sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Ahmet Ali AktaşDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5882-0082
Pınar TaşarDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2378-0666
Deniz SiğirliDepartment of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4006-3263
Sadık Ayhan KiliçturgayDepartment of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkiye.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2427-8344

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Abstract

Background and study aim: The aim of the study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of different scoring systems and inflammatory markers in predicting the severity, local complications, pancreatic necrosis, and mortality of acute pancreatitis (AP). Materials and methods: The data of 357 patients whom the severity of pancreatitis was classified according to the Revised Atlanta Classification System diagnosed with AP were retrospectively examined. Also The APACHE II, BISAP, mCTSI, and Ranson scores of all patients were calculated. After determining the cut-off values for scoring systems and inflammatory markers with ROC analysis, comparison for AP severity, local complication, necrosis, and mortality. Results: In the study, 2.8% of patients had severe pancreatitis. It was found that the risk of developing local complications increased 2.82 times in cases with an 48 Conclusion: Although the superiority of scoring systems could not be demonstrated in our study, CRP and MCTSI for local complications, BISAP for severity and Ranson score for mortality were the determining variables.

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PancreatitisSeverity of Illness IndexAcute DiseaseAdultAgedAPACHEBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesBiomarkersC-Reactive ProteinAcute pancreatitislaboratory parametersprognosisscoring systems

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