Hepato Gastroenterol
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Hepato Gastroenterol · Nov 2010
Use of band cell percentage as an early predictor of death and ICU admission in severe acute pancreatitis.
Severe acute pancreatitis has a high mortality rate, with over half of the deaths occurring from multiorgan failure in the first seven days of hospitalization. Recruitment of neutrophils to the inflammation in the pancreas is the early event that can escalate to the systemic inflammatory response that causes multiorgan failure. We undertook a retrospective chart review study to ask whether the percentage of immature neutrophils (band cells) in plasma could be used as an early predictor of adverse outcomes (ICU admissions and deaths). ⋯ Band cell percentage might be used clinically as a simple early predictor of adverse outcome in severe acute pancreatitis.