Early nasogastric tube feeding versus nil-by-mouth in patients with mild and moderate acute pancreatitis: A randomised controlled trial

Early enteral nutrition (EN) can improve the prognosis of acute pancreatitis (AP), but the optimal initiation time is unknown. In this study, the optimal time of early EN was analyzed to disclose the application of early EN in AP.Data of 104 patients with AP were prospectively collected. With secondary infection (infected pancreatic necrosis and extrapancreatic infection) as the primary outcome variable, receiver operating characteristic (ROC)...