BEHIND THE PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR PRESCRIPTION: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON PHYSICIAN PRACTICES AND KNOWLEDGE.

Background: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely prescribed worldwide, often resulting in their overuse. Consequently, it is essential to identify the likely causes of this overuse to facilitate their appropriate prescription.

Objective: This study aims to assess physician prescribing patterns, their knowledge of PPIs, and factors affecting their knowledge.

Gut microbiota predicts severity and reveals novel metabolic signatures in acute pancreatitis.

Objective: Early disease prediction is challenging in acute pancreatitis (AP). Here, we prospectively investigate whether the microbiome predicts severity of AP (Pancreatitis-Microbiome As Predictor of Severity; P-MAPS) early at hospital admission.

Design: Buccal and rectal microbial swabs were collected from 424 patients with AP within 72 hours of hospital admission in 15 European centres.

Value of CRP/albumin ratio as a prognostic marker of acute pancreatitis: a retrospective study.

Introduction: the C-reactive protein (CRP) to albumin ratio is an inflammatory marker that has shown promise in the prognosis of critically ill patients. This study is aimed to assess the value of CRP/albumin ratio to predict severity in acute pancreatitis.

Methods: a retrospective study was performed using a prospectively collected database of patients diagnosed with AP admitted to the Department of Gastroenterology between March 2014 and December 2021.

Recurrent acute pancreatitis is not uncommon in our clinical setting.

Data on recurrent episodes of acute pancreatitis (RAP) are scarce. The aim of the study was to evaluate our rate of RAP and risks factors. This is a retrospective, single-center, study of consecutive patients admitted for AP and followed-up.