Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Weidong Wu

Publications

• Research Article
  Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Acute Pancreatitis Coexisting with Organ Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  Author(s): Chunyi Gui, Weidong Wu, Ruoqing Lei and Min WangChunyi Gui, Weidong Wu, Ruoqing Lei and Min Wang
  
  Purpose: Acute pancreatitis is a systemic disease, and is usually closely associated with organ failures. This study was to investigate the pattern of organ failure in the course of acute pancreatitis. Recent Findings: A total of 783 severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and moderately severe acute pancreatitis (MSAP) patients who were sequentially treated in Department of Surgery, Ruijin Hospital from January 2001 to December 2008 were retrospectively analyzed. All the patients were divided according to their outcomes into two groups: deceased group and survival group. The relationship between the happening of organ failure and outcome of the patients were observed. Then peripheral blood level of endotoxin core antibody and TNF-α between SAP and MSAP groups were compared. Among the 783 patients, the numbers of MSAP patients and SAP patients were 573 and 210 respectively. Overall, 698.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9619.1000297

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