AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with ...AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with those of patients with pancreatitis-related respiratory failure as well as controls.METHODS:One hundred and forty-eight patients with respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and concomitant acute pancreatitis were identified from a prospectively collected dataset of 9108 consecutive patients admitted with respiratory failure over a period of five years.Sixty patients met the criteria for ventilator-related pancreatitis,and 88(control patients),for pancreatitis-related respiratory failure.RESULTS:Mortality rate in ventilator-related pancreatitis was comparable to that in ICU patients without pancreatitis by case-control methodology(P=0.544).Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified low PaO2/FiO2(OR:1.032,95% CI:1.006-1.059,P=0.016) as an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The mortality rate in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis was lower than that in patients with acute pancreatitis-related respiratory failure(P<0.001).CONCLUSION:We found that low PaO2/FiO2 was an independent clinical parameter predictive of ICU mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.展开更多
Although respiratory failure commonly occurs during the course of myasthenia gravis (MG),it is rarely described as the first presentation in patients with previously unrecognized MG.Here we reported one case of MG in ...Although respiratory failure commonly occurs during the course of myasthenia gravis (MG),it is rarely described as the first presentation in patients with previously unrecognized MG.Here we reported one case of MG in a 76-year-old man with the isolated respiratory failure as the first symptom.As illustrated by this case,it is important to consider neuromuscular disorders in cases of unexplained respiratory failure.展开更多
文摘AIM:To identify risk factors predictive of intensive care unit(ICU) mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The clinical outcomes of patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis were compared with those of patients with pancreatitis-related respiratory failure as well as controls.METHODS:One hundred and forty-eight patients with respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and concomitant acute pancreatitis were identified from a prospectively collected dataset of 9108 consecutive patients admitted with respiratory failure over a period of five years.Sixty patients met the criteria for ventilator-related pancreatitis,and 88(control patients),for pancreatitis-related respiratory failure.RESULTS:Mortality rate in ventilator-related pancreatitis was comparable to that in ICU patients without pancreatitis by case-control methodology(P=0.544).Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified low PaO2/FiO2(OR:1.032,95% CI:1.006-1.059,P=0.016) as an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.The mortality rate in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis was lower than that in patients with acute pancreatitis-related respiratory failure(P<0.001).CONCLUSION:We found that low PaO2/FiO2 was an independent clinical parameter predictive of ICU mortality in patients with ventilator-related pancreatitis.
文摘Although respiratory failure commonly occurs during the course of myasthenia gravis (MG),it is rarely described as the first presentation in patients with previously unrecognized MG.Here we reported one case of MG in a 76-year-old man with the isolated respiratory failure as the first symptom.As illustrated by this case,it is important to consider neuromuscular disorders in cases of unexplained respiratory failure.
