Epidemiological trends in acute pancreatitis: A retrospective cohort in a tertiary center over a seven year period

Table 1 Number of unique patients in the BUCharest – Acute Pancreatitis Index 1 – gastroenterology cohort

Type of disease	Number of episodes	Number of unique patients
AP & RAP	947	829
Acute-on-chronic pancreatitis	126	89
Total BUC-API 1 gastroenterology	1074	918

BUC-API: BUCharest – Acute Pancreatitis Index; AP: Acute pancreatitis; RAP: Recurrent acute pancreatitis.

Table 2 Frequency of etiologies

Cause	Number of cases	Percent (%)
Alcohol	433	45.7
Idiopathic	155	16.4
Biliary	144	15.2
Hypertriglyceridemia	33	3.5
Diabetes mellitus	28	3.0
Pharmacological	25	2.6
Mixed (alcohol & biliary)	21	2.2
Mixed (alcohol & diabetes mellitus)	21	2.2
Mixed (alcohol & hypertriglyceridemia)	18	1.9
Mixed (hypertriglyceridemia & diabetes mellitus)	17	1.8
Ischemic	14	1.5
Extra pancreatic anomalies	13	1.4
Other (trauma, IBD, intrapancreatic anomalies etc.)	25	2.6

IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease.

Table 3 Outcome at discharge

Outcome	Number of cases	Percent (%)
Healed	788	83.2
Discharge at will	78	8.2
Deceased	52	5.5
Transferred	26	2.7
Stationary	3	0.3

Table 4 Morphology

Morphology	Number of cases	Percent (%)
Interstitial	429	45.3
Normal pancreas	107	11.3
Acute peripancreatic fluid collection	70	7.4
Pseudocyst	52	5.5
Acute necrotic collection	33	3.5
Walled off necrosis	4	0.4
N/A	252	26.6

N/A: Not applicable.