Acute pancreatitis: a possible role for activated protein C?
Acute pancreatitis results from a sequence of events that involve the systemic inflammatory response. Activated C has multiple anti-inflammatory activities and may attenuate the degree of pancreatic injury and systemic organ dysfunction when infused early in pancreatitis.
Saint Vincents Hospital, New York, New York, USA.
Linda
L
Kirschenbaum
Mark
M
Astiz
D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011486:Protein C / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D000925:Anticoagulants; D011486:Protein C