Respiratory failure in acute pancreatitis.
Marked respiratory insufficiency was established in 20 of 91 patients with acute pancreatitis. 16 of them died, 12 from uncontrollable hypoxaemia. At postmortem the most prominent finding was microatelectasis, the occurrence of which correlated highly with the serum amylase activity.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000681:Amylases / Q000097:blood; D001778:Blood Coagulation Disorders / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications*; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000473:pathology; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology
D000681:Amylases