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Showing The Precipitating Causes of Acute Pancreatitis
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Acute pancreatitis is quite common in Nepal. It afflicts male, female, adolescent and old equally. With advent of newer diagnostic tool, medical knowledge, and health awareness the thrust is on controlling the morbidity and mortality, hence search for reliable prognostic indicators. The prospective study was taken up to find out the reliable progno...
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... -males were 189 (47.01%) and females 213 (52.98%) with Ratio M:F: 1: 1.12 (Table 1). The Precipitating Causes of Acute Pancreatitis is depicted in Figure 1. The precipitating causes were, biliary 78 (19.4%), alcoholic 116 (28.86%), idiopathic 196 (48.76%), mumps 6, ascariasis 4, postoperative 1 following LSCS, and due to blunt abdominal trauma -one ...
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