Chronic Relapsing Pancreatitis

Relapsing acute and chronic pancreatitis.

Twenty five children with non-traumatic relapsing acute or chronic pancreatitis who had been followed up from five months to seven years were studied. Seven had congenital anomalies, including two with choledochal cysts and four with pancreas divisum. Alcohol related disease was suspected in one child. The importance of diabetes in two patients and a positive family history in a further three i...

Autoimmune Chronic Pancreatitis Relapsing Despite the Maintenance Dose of Steroid

Autoimmune chronic pancreatitis is a disease characterized by diffuse swelling of the pancreas, irregular narrowing of the main pancreatic duct and elevated levels of serum IgG, and lymphoplasmacytic infiltration is observed on histologic examination. Steroid therapy can dramatically reverse the clinical symptoms and the histologic and radiologic findings. It is known that recurrence is very ra...

Aetiologies of recurrent acute pancreatitis: acute or chronic relapsing disease?

Pleural effusion in relapsing pancreatitis.

A small coincident pleural effusion occurs commonly in acute pancreatitis (Coffey, 1952; Stein et al. 1959; Roseman, Kowlessar & Sleisenger 1960; Fishbein, Murphy & Wilder 1962; Kaye, 1968; Miridjanian et al., 1969.) Massive pleural effusions are rare and frequently cause diagnostic confusion in acute and chronic pancreatitis (Roseman et al., 1960, Kaye, 1968; Miridjanian et al., 1969). A case ...

pancreatitis, and chronic pancreatitis

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS Two hundred and five confirmed cases of pancreatitis have been classified. Primary calcifying pancreatitis is associated with alcoholism. Pancreatic changes are patchy and related to plugging of minute ducts. Cysts are frequent. Obstruction to the main pancreatic duct may also result in chronic pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis and acute recurrent pancreatitis are often associ...