DOI: 10.36347/sasjs

Pages: 94-103

Acute pancreatitis remains a common disorder with devasting consequences. Although most episodes are mild and self-limiting, upto one fifth of patient develop a severe attack that can be fatal. Inspite of technical advances in medical and surgical field’s acute pancreatitis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. So this challenging subject is taken up for the present study in which we will be studying age, sex prevalence and etiology and clinical presentation and management of acute pancreatitis. It is a cross sectional study conducted in our hospital Basaveshwara teaching and general hospital-Kalaburagi attached to Mahadevappa Rampure medical college during the study period from Dec 2014-june 2016. 65 consecutive acute pancreatitis cases were analysed. The study includes a total of 65 patients of acute pancreatitis, 60 males and 5 females. The peak incidence in male and in female was 3rd decade in life. Alcohol accounts 84.6% total cases where as gall stone and idiopathic contributes 6.1 % each. Serum lipase is more sensitive than serum amylase. Systemic complications were diagnosed by routine blood investigation, RFT, LFT, serum calcium and chest x ray. Local complications were diagnosed by USG abdomen and CT scan. Total 36 patients had complications and 29 do not have any complications. Among complicated patients 14 had both local and systemic complication, whereas 22 had only local complications.