TREATMENT
Initial refeeding with a soft diet was better than a clear liquid diet for length of hospital stay in mild acute pancreatitis
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E Sathiaraj
Ms E Sathiaraj, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India; esther.sathiaraj@gmail.com
In patients with mild acute pancreatitis, is resumption of oral feeding with a soft diet better than a clear liquid diet for reducing length of hospital stay?
Design: randomised controlled trial.
Allocation: {concealed}.*
Blinding: blinded {patients and data analysts}.*
Follow-up period: until hospital discharge.
Setting: Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, India.
Patients:
101 patients (mean age 38 y, 82% men) who had mild acute pancreatitis (absence of pancreatic necrosis, abscess and pseudocyst, organ dysfunction, hypotension [systolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg], and hypoxaemia [oxygen saturation <90%]), were admitted to hospital with abdominal pain, and had amylase or lipase >3 times the upper limit of normal or >2 times the upper limit of normal and a computerised tomography scan showing unequivocal acute pancreatitis and peripancreatic inflammation. Exclusion criteria included neoplasm, pregnancy, infection (eg, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS), acute on chronic pancreatitis if
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