The clinical outcome of elderly patients with acute pancreatitis is not different in spite of the different etiologies and severity

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the overall clinical characteristics of elderly patients with acute pancreatitis. We retrospectively evaluated 227 consecutively enrolled patients who were admitted with acute pancreatitis. The clinical features, the radiological and laboratory data and the clinical outcome were analyzed according to the age groups (≥65 years vs. p p p p  = 0.619) and mortality (3.5% vs. 0.7%, p  = 0.148) were not different between the age-groups. In our study, chronological age had no significant influence on the clinical outcome in spite of the different etiologies and severity of acute pancreatitis.