Change in the incidence of acute pancreatitis in Veszprém county in twenty years

Object: Acute pancreatitis has become increasingly common in Western countries in the last decades. Limited data are available on the frequency of acute pancreatitis in Hungary. The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence and main epidemiologic features of the disease, and compare with that of our previous study performed two decades earlier. Methods: The hospital reports from internal medicine, surgical, and intensive care departments were collected and evaluated retrospectively. The main etiologic causes, the demographic features, severity, and outcome of the disease were investigated. The number of the…