BACKGROUND & AIMS: There is limited information on the incidence of and factors
associated with severe disease among patients with interstitial pancreatitis (IP). We …

OBJECTIVE To characterize patients with early severe pancreatitis, identify risk factors of
severity, and assess their outcome. METHODS All consecutive patients with AP were …

Background A definition of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is needed for diagnosis and
distinguishing CP from other disorders. Previous definitions focused on morphology …

Chronic pancreatitis is defined as a pathological fibro-inflammatory syndrome of the
pancreas in individuals with genetic, environmental and/or other risk factors who develop …

Objectives: Knowledge of the natural course of acute pancreatitis (AP) and risk of
progression to chronic pancreatitis (CP) is limited. The aims were to describe:(1) the …

Severe acture pancreatitis (SAP), a multisystem disease, is characterized by multiple organ
system failure and additionally by local pancreatic complications such as necrosis, abscess …

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pancreatic necrosis and
organ failure in acute pancreatitis. Two hundred seventeen patients with acute pancreatitis …

Background Based on reports from tertiary care centers, chronic pancreatitis (CP) is
considered to be a painful and debilitating disease frequently requiring invasive …

Recent advances in understanding of pancreatitis and advances in technology have
uncovered the veils of idiopathic pancreatitis to a point where a thorough history and …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: There is no consistency between the individual studies in the
literature on whether organ failure (OF) or infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is the main …