Rare hereditary cause of chronic pancreatitis in a young male: SPINK1 mutation
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 Hereditary chronic pancreatitis associated with a mutation in the serine protease inhibitor, Kazal Type-1 (SPINK-1 gene) is extremely rare. The SPINK1 mutation results in trypsinogen activation which predisposes to chronic pancreatitis predominately when
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Clinical Approach to Chronic Pancreratitis [PDF]
, 2003 Chronic pancreatitis is still considered an uncertain process with an undetermined pathogenesis and ill defined treatment. Chronic pancreatitis is distinguished from acute pancreatitis based on structural and functional differences. In acute pancreatitis,
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Disseminated Nocardia cyriacigeorgia causing pancreatitis in a haploidentical stem cell transplant recipient. [PDF]
, 2017 We report the first published case of acute pancreatitis secondary to disseminated nocardiosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipient on chronic immunosuppression for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
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Cytological Findings of 140 Bile Samples from Dogs and Cats and Associated Clinical Pathological Data [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Cholecystocentesis can be part of the diagnostic workup of hepatobiliary disease in small animals, but literature on cytological evaluation of bile is scant.
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Novel method to rescue a lethal phenotype through integration of target gene onto the X-chromosome. [PDF]
, 2016 The loss-of-function mutations of serine protease inhibitor, Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) gene are associated with human chronic pancreatitis, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. We previously reported that mice lacking Spink3, the murine homologue of
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Pain management in chronic pancreatitis: taming the beast
Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, 2013 Chijioke Enweluzo, Letlhogonolo Tlhabano Section on Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA Abstract: Abdominal pain is a principal and in many cases, the only observable symptom of ...
Enweluzo C, Tlhabano L
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Six questions on the construction of ontologies in biomedicine [PDF]
, 2005 (Report assembled for the Workshop of the AMIA Working Group on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation in connection with AMIA Symposium, Washington DC, 2005.) Best practices in ontology building for biomedicine have been frequently ...
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Intramural duodenal hematoma: clinical course and imaging findings [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Intramural duodenal hematoma is a rare condition. Different imaging modalities are at hand for diagnosis. Purpose: To identify patients with intramural duodenal hematoma and report imaging findings and clinical courses. Material and Methods:
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Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2014 Introduction: Chronic pancreatitis and liver disease are two conditions that commonly co-exist in chronic alcoholics with variable incidences. Aim: To evaluate frequency pancreatitis in patients with a history of chronic alcohol abuse.
Pallavi Agrawal, Kim Vaiphei
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Clinical features of alcoholic hepatitis in latinos and caucasians: A single center experience. [PDF]
, 2017 AimTo study differences of presentation, management, and prognosis of alcoholic hepatitis in Latinos compared to Caucasians.MethodsWe retrospectively screened 876 charts of Caucasian and Latino patients who were evaluated at University of California ...
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