eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2017-06-20 14 2 875 880 10.13005/bpj/1180 14625 article Seyed Jalal Hashemi 1 Rahim Masjedizadeh 1 Furuzan Mehran 2 Arsalan Tahmasebi 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran. Department of Internal Medicine, Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz, Iran. Student of medicine, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran. Etiology, clinical course and early diagnosis of acute pancreatitis because of high mortality in severe cases and the increasing rate of incidence in recent years are of important value. Therefore, the present study is conducted for evaluation of correlation between etiology of acute pancreatitis and its clinical course in hospitalized patients in Ahwaz of Iran. this descriptive retrograde study was conducted on patients with acute pancreatitis hospitalized in Ahvaz Imam Khomeini Hospital during 2009-2014. The data of patients including the reason of acute pancreatitis, duration of hospitalization, type of treatment and Ranson score and BISAP score according to existing signs in the profile. in this study, the profiles of 231 patients were evaluated, among which 143 patients were women (61.9%) with average age of 44.95± 19.91 years and 88 patients were men (38.1%) with average age of 46.23± 18.78 years. Idiopathic reasons and then presence of gall bladder stones were the most common reasons of acute pancreatitis. Averagely, the duration of hospitalization of patients with acute pancreatitis was 7.46± 5.4 days. BISAP score and Ranson score in patients were 0.7±0.87 and 0.98±0.92, respectively.the harvested results of the present study showed that criteria such as Ranson and BISAP, are appropriate anticipants for clinical course of patients with acute pancreatitis. Furthermore, because of worse clinical course in patients with acute pancreatitis due to idiopathic reasons, this group is under higher attention. https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol10no2/the-relationship-between-etiology-of-acute-pancreatitis-and-its-clinical-features-in-iranian-patients/ acute pancreatitis   clinical course Etiology