Sergiy Kostenko

Background: The incidence of hypertriglyceridemia-associated acute pancreatitis (HTG-AP) has been increasing recently. Plasmapheresis can effectively remove triglyceride(TG) from plasma, but its clinical value in HTG-AP is unclear due to the lack of solid evidence…

BACKGROUND: Hypertriglyceridemia can develop during pancreatitis from other etiologies even in the absence of preexisting HTG (PMID: 31229460, 28655321, 30885545). For unclear reasons HTG-AP can be more severe than other AP etiologies…