Is obesity a significant prognostic factor in acute pancreatitis?

A Clinically Based Classification System for Acute Pancreatitis

1993 • 2,752 citations

Indices of relative weight and obesity

1972 • 1,967 citations

Acute pancreatitis: value of CT in establishing prognosis.

1990 • 1,623 citations

Prognostic signs and the role of operative management in acute pancreatitis.

1974 • 1,302 citations

Variations in mortality by weight among 750,000 men and women

1979 • 1,200 citations

Bacterial contamination of pancreatic necrosis

1986 • 926 citations

APACHE-II SCORE FOR ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF ACUTE PANCREATITIS

1989 • 700 citations

Grading body fatness from limited anthropometric data

1981 • 422 citations

Trypsinogen activation peptides assay in the early prediction of severity of acute pancreatitis

1990 • 268 citations

PMN-Elastase in Comparison with CRP, Antiproteases, and LDH as Indicators of Necrosis in Human Acute Pancreatitis

1991 • 201 citations

Obesity: An important prognostic factor in acute pancreatitis

1993 • 199 citations

Obesity and Related Diseases

1988 • 196 citations

Prognostic factors in sterile pancreatic necrosis

1992 • 174 citations

Granulocyte elastase in assessment of severity of acute pancreatitis

1990 • 156 citations

Value of contrast-enhanced computerized tomography in theearly diagnosis and prognosis of acute pancreatitis

1988 • 142 citations

A prospective study of acute pancreatitis

1975 • 137 citations

Role of serum endotoxin and antiendotoxin core antibody levels in predicting the development of multiple organ failure in acute pancreatitis

1993 • 113 citations

Abdominal composition quantified by computed tomography

1988 • 112 citations

Obesity as a predictor of severity in acute pancreatitis

1991 • 108 citations

Dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography: a precise technique for identifying and localising pancreatic necrosis.

1990 • 107 citations

Increased Body Weight as a Prognostic Parameter for Complications in the Course of Acute Pancreatitis

1990 • 92 citations

Monitoring of serum proteinase-antiproteinase balance and systemic inflammatory response in prognostic evaluation of acute pancreatitis

1993 • 55 citations

Pancreatic Necrosis and Acute Pancreatitis

1982 • 37 citations

Bacterial Infection of Pancreatic Necrosis

1987 • 23 citations