Dr. Gordon Ohning (Medicine) led a group of residents and fellows through a project titled “Utility of Inflammatory Markers to Predict Adverse Outcome in Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study in a Single Academic Center,” which was published at Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology.

Ohning and his co-authors evaluated the utility of inflammatory markers like lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) markers in the early identification of patients with complicated acute pancreatitis (AP). They retrospectively reviewed all patients with a diagnosis of AP admitted to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas between 2015 and 2018 and they found that persistently low LMR that is associated with severe AP and elevated NLR is associated with complicated AP and prolonged hospital stay.

Ohning is chief of gastroenterology at the department of internal medicine.