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Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory disease of the pancreas characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, elevated serum amylase, and edema or necrosis of the pancreas. The clinical course of AP is generally mild; however, nearly 25% of patients progress into severe AP which consists
Adipose tissue is a loose type of connective tissue specialized to store lipids. The majority of lipids stored in adipose cells are triglycerides formed from imported free fatty acids and glycerol. It is not uniformly distributed in the body. The major adipose depot is subcutaneous (about 80% of all
TITLE: Moderate Versus Aggressive Fluid Therapy in Patients with Mild to Moderate Acute Pancreatitis
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES In the United States, acute pancreatitis results in more than 200,000 hospital admissions each year and has an associated mortality of 5%. While protease inhibitors,
1.0 BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES
Post endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis is defined as the development of epigastric pain radiating to the back accompanied by either an increase in the pancreatic enzymes (amylase and lipase) to greater than three times the upper limit of
This is an open-label, single arm, single center study in patients with hypertension in the setting of an acute brain injury. Approximately 15 patients admitted to the Columbia University Neurocritical Care Unit with intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage or traumatic brain injury who are
This Phase I trial will test two doses of SANGUINATE™ in adult subjects suffering from chronic sickle cell disease (SCD). A total of fifteen (15) patients will be assigned to the low and high dose cohorts of SANGUINATE™.
The first 8 subjects will receive the study agent in an initial low dose of 160
Acute pancreatitis represents the most common complication after ERCP. The reported incidence of this complication varies from less than 1% to 40%, but rates of about 10% are reported in most prospective studies involving non-selected patients. Although most episodes (about 90%) of post-ERCP