Prevalence and impact of acute kidney injury in hospitalized pediatric patients with acute pancreatitis

The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in pediatric patients is rising with accompanying increased hospitalizations. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with worse clinical outcomes in adults, and similar data in the pediatric age group is limited. We analyzed non-overlapping years of National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and Kids Inpatient Database (KID) to include all patients less than 21 years old with primary diagnosis of AP between 2003...