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Gut, 2018
Objective In patients with pancreatitis, early persisting organ failure is believed to be the most important cause of mortality. This study investigates the relation between the timing (onset and duration) of organ failure and mortality and its ...
N. J. Schepers +7 more
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Objective In patients with pancreatitis, early persisting organ failure is believed to be the most important cause of mortality. This study investigates the relation between the timing (onset and duration) of organ failure and mortality and its ...
N. J. Schepers +7 more
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Early Intra-Acinar Events in Pathogenesis of Pancreatitis.
Gastroenterology, 2019Premature activation of digestive enzymes in the pancreas has been linked to development of pancreatitis for more than a century. Recent development of novel models to study the role of pathologic enzyme activation has led to advances in our ...
A. Saluja, V. Dudeja, R. Dawra, R. Sah
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Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer
New England Journal of Medicine, 1993Pancreatic cancer is the 5th leading cause of death from cancer and the 11th most common cancer in the United States1; each year 24,000 people die of pancreatic cancer in this country. The incidence of pancreatic cancer increased dramatically several decades ago, but it has remained fairly stable over the past 15 years (9.1 per 100,000).
John L. Cameron, Ellen B. Gold
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Pancreatic microcirculation in acute pancreatitis
Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, 1998We present a review of the microvascular morphology of the pancreas and microstructure of the pancreatic lobule, and report our experimental results of the investigation of pancreatic microcirculation following acute pancreatitis. Impairment of pancreatic microcirculation in the early phase of acute pancreatitis may play a key role in the progression ...
Lianghao Ding +7 more
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Pancreatic glucagonoma with pancreatic calcification
Pancreatology, 2013Glucagonoma is an uncommon type of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor [NET] which is characterized by diabetes mellitus, necrolytic migratory erythema, depression and deep vein thrombosis. The typical rash is often misdiagnosed and the diagnosis is delayed by 7-8 years.
Pravin Agrawal +3 more
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Hereditary Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Carcinoma
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999Abstract: Few risk factors for pancreatic cancer have emerged except for chronic pancreatitis. Recently, hereditary pancreatitis was estimated to carry a standardized incidence ratio of 53, a risk about 25 times higher than smoking. A review of the ongoing hereditary pancreatitis study of the Midwest Multi‐center Pancreatic Study Group suggests that ...
Stephen P. Martin +3 more
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Pancreatic Endotherapy for Chronic Pancreatitis
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, 2015Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is recommended as the first-line therapy for large (>5-mm) obstructive pancreatic ductal stones. Dominant pancreatic duct strictures should be initially managed with a wide-bore single plastic stent with 3 monthly exchanges for a year, even in asymptomatic patients.
Rupjyoti Talukdar +1 more
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Pancreatic Sphincterotomy and Pancreatic Endoprosthesis
Endoscopy, 1985Recently, endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST), developed as a treatment of bile duct stone or papillary stenosis, has been used for transpapillary biliary drainage in cases of extrahepatic biliary stenosis. For the nonoperative treatment of chronic pancreatitis, we have developed this procedure into a technique for opening the pancreatic duct orifice ...
T. Aibe +7 more
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Pancreatic Resection for Chronic Pancreatitis
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1989Patients with chronic pancreatitis needing operative management include those with severe pain, those with complications of pancreatitis, or those in whom it is not possible to distinguish cancer of the pancreas from chronic pancreatitis. The use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, CT, and angiography to define the structural ...
Shuji Isaji +3 more
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Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer
Digestive Diseases, 2002Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the USA in both sexes. Early diagnosis is difficult and the overall mortality rate is high. Individuals at high risk for pancreatic cancer include smokers, and persons with all forms of chronic alcoholic, metabolic, tropical or hereditary pancreatitis.
Albert B. Lowenfels, Patrick Maisonneuve
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