Shobhit Piplani, Arpit Jain, Kamaldeep Singh, Shreya Gulati, Salil Chaturvedi, Vishal Reddy Bejugam, Donclair Brown, Chisom Asuzu, Shiny Teja Kolli, Usman Shah, Jashan Reet, Milos Mihajlovic, Vladimir Jelic, Gavro Jelic, Rosalba Santana De Roberts, Dushyant Damania, Miroslav Radulovic
BACKGROUND: Hypertriglyceridemia is a common cause of acute pancreatitis (AP). This literature review compared the effectiveness and adverse events of insulin therapy, with or without heparin, and plasmapheresis, in reducing triglyceride levels in patients with hypertriglyceridemia-induced AP. METHODS: Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, evidence syntheses, editorials, commentaries, protocols, abstracts, theses and preprints were excluded. Review Manager was used to conduct the meta-analysis...
2024: Annals of Gastroenterology: Quarterly Publication of the Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology