Forty-five cases of pancreatic calcification are reported, and it is shown that in Western Nigeria this malady afflicts younger people than in Europe and the United States of America. Males and females seem about equally affected in Western Nigeria, whereas it predominantly affects males in France, Britain, and North America. Diabetes mellitus was the commonest complication in this series, and ...

We show that the turbidimetric method of Ziegenhorn et al. (Clin. Chem. 25: 1067, 1979) for determination of pancreatic lipase is not influenced by lipoprotein lipase. This improved specificity as compared to standard lipase methods is explained by the presence of purified colipase and the high concentration of bile acids in the substrate emulsion.

The indirect peroxidase method was employed to study the endocrine pancreas of the Cape fur seal. Immunoreactivity to insulin was confined to the cores of the islets and the insulin cells were more abundant than the other endocrine cell types, which occurred mainly in the mantles of the islets. Of these, glucagon cells were the most numerous, followed by somatostatin and pancreatic polypeptide ...

Background. Pancreatic enzyme supplementation is widely used to treat pain in patients with chronic pancreatitis, despite little evidence for efficacy. We performed a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis to investigate its effectiveness. Methods. All randomized controlled parallel or crossover trials in patients with chronic pancreatitis comparing pancreatic enzyme supplement...

This study sought to investigate the ameliorative effects of ethanol extract Artocarpus heterophyllus (EAH) in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. The rats were divided into 6 groups, with groups 1 and 2 serving as nondiabetic and diabetic control, respectively; group 3 serving as diabetic rats treated with 5 mg/kg glibenclamide; and groups 4 to 6 were diabetic rats treated with 50, 100, and 150 mg/...

Pancreatic lithiasis causing chronic pancreatitis is a very rare entity in childhood. A five-year-old girl presenting with pancreatic lithiasis was treated successfully with a well-organized diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm. The authors emphasize that early diagnosis followed by appropriate therapeutic pancreatographic procedures instead of primary invasive surgical approach can certainly a...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS Trypsin and chymotrypsin activity per gram of stool varies inversely with the weight of the sample in control African subjects. The total daily output of both enzymes in patients with pancreatic calcification does not differ significantly from the output of control subjects. The lower mean concentration of the enzymes in chronic pancreatic disease can be accounted for by the ...

Bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity has improved dramatically over the past 60 years — especially over the past several decades. Today’s methods are far safer than the hazardous intestinal bypass procedures that were introduced in the 1950s. Bariatric-surgery techniques have progressed through various iterations of horizontal and vertical stapling of the stomach with or without banding (e...

BACKGROUND : Biliopancreatic diversion (BPD), and its modifications, is the most effective surgical bariatric treatment of morbid obesity associated metabolic disturbances. However, at present comparative studies dynamics carbohydrate metabolism after various modifications BPD are lacking. AIM assessment for effectiveness biliopancreatic with duodenal switch (BPD-DS) in HessMarceau single-anast...