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Rational Prescribing of Pancreatic Enzymes for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

Pharmacy
Most patients with pancreatic cancer at some point present with symptoms related to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI). These include diarrhea, abdominal bloating, indigestion, steatorrhea, weight loss, and anorexia.
Mary Acelle G. Garcia, Syed Imam, Ursula K. Braun, Leanne K. Jackson   +3 more
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Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency: Diagnosis and treatment [PDF]

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2011
AbstractPancreatic insufficiency is a major consequence of pancreatic diseases leading to a loss of pancreatic parenchyma, obstruction of the main pancreatic duct, decreased pancreatic stimulation, or acid‐mediated inactivation of pancreatic enzymes. In addition, gastrointestinal and pancreatic surgical resections are frequent causes.
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Fatty pancreas disease in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients: a case–control study on relationships with glycemic control and exocrine function

Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
Background Fatty pancreas disease (FPD) is characterized by abnormal fat accumulation in pancreatic tissue and is often associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Tahsin Taner Karaevren, Refika Yorulmaz, Mahinur Cerit, Halit Nahit Şendur, Burak Kalafat, Gizem Yaz Aydın, Özlem Gülbahar, Mehmet Muhittin Yalçın, Ayhan Karakoç, Müjde Aktürk, Füsun Baloş Törüner, Alev Eroğlu Altınova, Taha Enes Çetin, Ethem Turgay Cerit   +13 more
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COMPARING THE ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY COST IN POST PANCREATECTOMY PATIENTS DUE TO PANCREATIC TUMOR AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
Background - Among late postoperative complications of pancreatectomy are the exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiencies. The presence of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency imposes, as standard treatment, pancreatic enzyme replacement.
Anna Victoria FRAGOSO, Martha Regina PEDROSO, Paulo HERMAN, André Luis MONTAGNINI   +3 more
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Pancreatic enzyme therapy for pancreatic exocrine insufficiency

Current Gastroenterology Reports, 2007
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency with steatorrhea is a major consequence of pancreatic diseases (eg, chronic pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, severe acute necrotizing pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer), extrapancreatic diseases such as celiac disease and Crohn's disease, and gastrointestinal and pancreatic surgical resection. Recognition of this entity is
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Marked intrafamilial variability of exocrine and endocrine pancreatic phenotypes due to a splice site mutation in GATA6

Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 2018
The objective of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics of syndromic neonatal diabetes in a family with a GATA6 mutation. A girl, currently aged 12 years 3 months, was born with intrauterine growth retardation: weight 1600 g (–4.3 SDS ...
Radka Savova, Elisa De Franco, Charles Shaw-Smith, Ralitza Georgieva, Maia Konstantinova, Margarita Archinkova, Emilia Panteleeva, Anna Kaneva, Rumen Marinov, Sian Ellard, Andrew Hattersley   +10 more
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Chronic Pancreatitis [PDF]

, 2018
Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive inflammation in pancreas results in fibrosis and irreversible damage lead to loss of exocrine and endocrine function. Mortality and complication rate is high. Appropriate management of chronic pancreatitis begin from
Abdullah, M. (Murdani), Kemalasari, I. (Indira), Simadibrata, M. (Marcellus)   +2 more
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Primary exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in children (a clinical case of Shwachman-Diamond syndrome)

Zdorovʹe Rebenka
The purpose of the article is to increase the vigilance of clinicians in various fields of medicine to Shwachman-Diamond syndrome in children and to raise awareness of its clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment using the example of the case ...
V.S. Berezenko, Yu.I. Proshchenko, Kh.Z. Mykhayluk, M.B. Dyba, O.M. Tkalik, Yu.O. Savenko   +5 more
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Deficiency of UBR1, a ubiquitin ligase of the N-end rule pathway, causes pancreatic dysfunction, malformations and mental retardation (Johanson-Blizzard syndrome) [PDF]

, 2005
Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (OMIM 243800) is an autosomal recessive disorder that includes congenital exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, multiple malformations such as nasal wing aplasia, and frequent mental retardation1.
Varshavsky, Alexander, Zenker, Martin
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Delayed release pancrelipase for treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency associated with chronic pancreatitis

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2009
Devi Mukkai Krishnamurty,1 Atoosa Rabiee,2 Sanjay B Jagannath,1 Dana K Andersen2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; 1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University School of ...
Devi Mukkai Krishnamurty, Atoosa Rabiee, Sanjay B Jagannath, Dana K Andersen   +3 more
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