Treatment of acute pancreatitis with protease inhibitors: a meta-analysis

T Seta, Y Noguchi, T Shimada, S Shikata… - European journal of …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Protease inhibitors are used to treat acute pancreatitis, but their effectiveness
remains unclear. We performed a meta-analysis to determine whether treatment with
protease inhibitors reduces overall mortality or morbidity from acute pancreatitis. Methods
Articles of randomized controlled trials evaluating effects of protease inhibitors for acute
pancreatitis were retrieved by systematically searching Medline, the Cochrane Library and
[email protected] databases published from January 1966 through December 2003 …