autoimmune pancreatitis is a fibro-inflammatory form of chronic pancreatitis. it is diagnosed by the combination of imaging studies such as a ct scan and pancreatography, laboratory analyses that include igg4 and/or autoantibodies, histopathological evaluations and positive response to corticosteroid therapy. we report the case of a 41-year-old female with a history of jaundice and increasing a...

CONTEXT Azathioprine induced pancreatitis usually runs a benign self limited course with rapid disappearance of signs and symptoms upon with drawl of the drug. Azathioprine is used in treating relapses in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis and maintenance of remission in autoimmune hepatitis. Acute pancreatitis complicated by symptomatic pseudocysts requiring drainage is not usually associat...

abstract autoimmune pancreatitis (aip) is a rare disorder that may be present as common bile duct stricture. the patient was a seventy-year-old man with presentations as recurrent abdominal pain and jaundice, elevated billirobin (bil) and elevated alkaline phosphatase (alkp) in association with the presence of hetrogenesity of the pancreatic head and dilated intra and extra hepatic bile ducts i...

Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare type of chronic pancreatitis with characteristic clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic findings. Diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis is often challenging due to its low incidence and nonspecific clinical and radiologic findings. Patients with autoimmune pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer share similar clinical presentations, including obstructive jaundice,...

The present review is focused on the clinical significance of lactoferrin in pancreatic secretions and stone formation in chronic pancreatitis, and of serum anti-lactoferrin antibody in autoimmune pancreatitis. Lactoferrin secretion is increased in pancreatic secretions in calcified and non-calcified chronic pancreatitis. Lactoferrin, pancreatic stone protein and trypsin are present in pancreat...

Autoimmune pancreatitis is a form of chronic pancreatitis that was first described by Sarles et al. in 1961, and later coined in 1995 by Yoshida et al. [1, 2]. Subsequently, two types of autoimmune pancreatitis have been described. Autoimmune pancreatitis type 1 fits the classic description of the disease and is associated with a lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis and an elevated level o...

Autoimmune pancreatitis is a form of chronic pancreatitis caused by an autoimmune process. The classical appearance of autoimmune pancreatitis in abdominal imaging is diffuse pancreatic enlargement, but the focal form appears as a mass and often involves the pancreatic head; this scenario represents a challenging diagnostic problem because these features also resemble pancreatic cancer. We pres...

Autoimmune pancreatitis is frequently associated with elevated serum and tissue IgG4 levels in the adult population, but there are few reports of pediatric autoimmune pancreatitis, and even fewer reports of IgG4 related systemic disease in a pediatric population. The standard of care treatment in adults is systemic corticosteroids with resolution of symptoms in most cases; however, multiple cou...

CONTEXT Autoimmune pancreatitis is a relatively rare, yet well described cause of chronic pancreatitis. Extrapancreatic findings are now recognized as important manifestations of this entity and viewed as part of a larger disease process tentatively named "IgG4-associated sclerotic disease". CASE REPORT We herein report a case of autoimmune pancreatitis with histopathologically proven gastric...

In recent years, autoimmune pancreatitis has been established as a special type of chronic pancreatitis. It is characterized by its histopathological and immunological features. The morphological hallmarks are periductal infiltration by lymphocytes and plasma cells and granulocytic epithelial lesions with consequent destruction of the duct epithelium and venulitis. Autoimmune pancreatitis has t...