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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2019 Feb 12;156(7):2008–2023. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.12.041

Table 2:

Summary of Results of Recent Studies highlighting Mortality in Patients with Persistent Organ Failure

Study* Number of
patients with
AP		 Number of
patients with
POF		 Mortality in
patients with
POF		 Mortality in patients
with early onset
POF$ 		Mortality in
patients with late
onset
POF
Padhan et al 2018 (ref 9) 805 365 156 (42.7%) 104/225 (46%) 52/140 (37%)
Schepers et al 2018 (ref 10) 639 219 83 (38%) 47/112 (42%) 36/107 (33.6%)
Sternby et al 2018 (ref 13) 1655 113 59 (52.2%) 47/89 (52.8%) 12/24 (50%)

POF = persistent organ failure

*

These are recent large studies, which had categorized patients according to revised Atlanta classification and the patients were treated as per current standard of care.

$

Early OF defined by development of OF within the first week of onset of AP