Clinical characteristics and management of patients with early acute severe pancreatitis: Experience from a medical center in China

Table 1 Comparison of clinical characteristics between ESAP and SAP

Factor	ESAP group	SAP group
Age (year)	58.95 ± 5.51a	60.12 ± 5.16
Sex (M/F)	38/31a	102/126
Hours between onset and admission	24.72 ± 5.21a	26.04 ± 4.03
APACHE II at admission	16.6 ± 0.72b	9.4 ± 0.45
Impairment degree of	5.31 ± 0.68b	3.68 ± 0.29
pancreas (Balthazar CT class)
Hypoxemia (%)	59(85.5)b	57(25)
ACS (%)	54(78.3)b	53(23.2)
Fever (T > 38.5 °C)(%)	38(55.1)b	55(24.1)
Pancreas infection (%)	11(15.9)a	17(7.5)
Other infections (%)	40(57.9)b	41(17.9)
Non-effective after 48 h	42(60.8)b	27(11.8)
ICU treatment (%)
Surgical treatment (%)	18(26.1)b	15(6.5)
Death (%)	30(43.4)b	6(2.6)
Death within 3 d	7	1
Death within 1 wk	16	2
Death after 1 wk	14	4
Mean hospitalization (d)	44.72 ± 42.151	21.26 ± 23.66

¹P > 0.05,

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01, vs SAP group, ACS: abdominal com-partment syndrome.