Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

LASERS IN IMPLANTOLOGY

Dr. Shilpa. P. Wasu, Abhishek Sarda

Abstract :

 The present study is intended to identify the risk factors of acute pancreatitis

among patients attending Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram based on a case control model. The present study was conducted among patients attending the Inpatient and Outpatient Departments of Surgery, Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram.

The cases were the patients aged between 20- 70 years with acute pancreatitis

characterized by serum lipase levels elevated above 180 IU /L and hypoechogenicity

of the pancreas in ultrasonography, and the controls were patients aged between 20 -

70 years without acute pancreatitis having normal serum lipase levels and

isoechogenicity of the pancreas in ultrasonography, attending Department of Surgery

in Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. The sample consisted of 100 cases

and 100 controls. The data were collected for a period of six weeks. It is found that alcoholism, gallstones, infections, intake of fatty foods and fried foods were the major risk factors for Acute Pancreatitis among patients attending Medical College Hospital,

Thiruvananthapuram.

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LASERS IN IMPLANTOLOGY, Dr. Shilpa.P.Wasu, Abhishek Sarda GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-6 | Issue-3 | March-2017

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