Table 3.

The incidence of early death in severe acute pancreatitis in this study and in the literature

	Total number	Early death (%)
Renner et al, 1985[8]	405	60
Wilson et al, 1988[15]	126	55.5
Lankisch et al, 1996[17]	37	56.7
Isenmann et al, 2001[19]	36	55.5
Present study	105	42