Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Profile and Management Among the Pancreatitis Patients in A Tertiary Care Hospital

The study mainly aims to assess the risk factors, clinical profile and prevalence in pancreatitis patients. The key objectives of the study include to assess the risk factors of pancreatitis patients, to identify the clinical profile and prevalence in pancreatic patients, the main objective of this present study is to assess the safety and give the information about the risk of various severity indices in predicting the outcome of the patients. It is a prospective observational study which was conducted in Government General Hospital Kurnool district in the department of general medicine. The present study was conducted to study the risk factors, clinical profile and prevalence of the pancreatitis patients In the current study, the sample size was 70 patients most of them were females constituting 76.3%. Majority of patients was suffering with pancreatitis from the age 21-40 years. Most common risk factors for were found to be Hypertension (30%), Diabetes (24%), HTN and T2DM (22%) followed by alcohol consumption (55.8%), gall stones (7.35%) .The clinical profile majorly observed in pancreatitis patients are abdominal pain , (98.5%), vomiting (67.6%), fever (17.6%), constipation (11.7%),jaundice(1.47%), bloating (23.5%).In this study minor complications like Headache was treated with paracetamol, followed by vomiting’s with ondansetron, infections with antibiotics like meropenem, ceftriaxone and amoxiclav and the least abdominal pain treated with tramadol. The present study concluded that the common risk factors are alcohol consumption and gall stones and mostly males are affected by the pancreatitis than the females and the most common symptoms are jaundice, vomiting, abdominal pain. Gender wise incidence of pancreatitis was more in males when compared to females due to the increased alcoholic consumption. Majority of patients were having mild disease and responding to conservative management. Complications are dealt with minimally invasive methods like image guided PCD and escalated to surgery when not relieved. There is no mortality in our study.