ALLMedicine™ Pancreatitis Center

May 19th, 2022 - The severity of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy (APIP) is correlated with higher risks of maternal and fetal death. To develop a nomogram that could predict moderately severe and severe acute pancreatitis in pregnancy (MSIP). Patients with APIP ad...

May 19th, 2022 - Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage (ENBD) is usually retained for several days after choledocholithiasis is removed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). ENBD placement provides reliable biliary drainage and perfusion, prevents pa...

May 19th, 2022 - Acute gallstone pancreatitis (AGP) is the most common cause of acute pancreatitis (AP) in the United States. Patients with AGP may also present with choledocholithiasis. In 2010, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) suggested...

May 19th, 2022 - Heterotopic pancreas (HP) is an aberrant anatomic malformation that occurs most commonly in the upper gastrointestinal tract. While the majority of heterotopic pancreatic lesions are asymptomatic, many manifest severe clinical symptoms which requi...

May 19th, 2022 - Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory disorder that has been associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Ginsenoside Rg3 is a major active component of Panax ginseng, which has been demonstrated to exert potent protective effects...

Apr 21st, 2022 - Dunnigan syndrome, or Familial Partial Lipodystrophy type 2 (FPLD2; ORPHA 2348), is a rare autosomal dominant disorder due to pathogenic variants of the LMNA gene. The objective of the French National Diagnosis and Care Protocol (PNDS; Protocole N...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Epigastric pain can have multiple etiologies including myocardial infarction, pancreatitis, acute aortic syndromes, gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, peptic ulcer disease, gastritis, duodenal ulcer disease, gastric cancer, and hiatal h...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - EUS remains a primary diagnostic tool for the evaluation of pancreaticobiliary disease. Although EUS combined with FNA or biopsy sampling is highly sensitive for the diagnosis of neoplasia within the pancreaticobiliary tract, limitations exist in ...

Sep 21st, 2020 - This guideline will provide the practicing endocrinologist with an approach to the assessment and treatment of dyslipidemia in patients with endocrine diseases, with the objective of preventing cardiovascular (CV) events and triglyceride-induced p...

Aug 15th, 2020 - This paper is part of the international consensus guidelines on chronic pancreatitis, presenting for interventional endoscopy. An international working group with experts on interventional endoscopy evaluated 26 statements generated from evidence ...

May 13th, 2022 - Propionic acidemia (PA) is one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism. Although this disorder is now routinely detected in the immediate neonatal period on the US newborn screen, clinical outcomes are poor despite timely and a...

May 13th, 2022 - Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism, is heterogeneous in etiology and clinical manifestations. Affected patients with cblA, cblB and mut classes of MMA are medically fragile and can suffer ...

May 6th, 2022 - Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is a condition that is caused by the inadequate pancreatic enzymes needed for normal digestion and is commonly associated with a wide range of chronic diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic pancre...

May 5th, 2022 - The Coordinating and Data Management Center (CDMC) at MD Anderson Cancer will be responsible for the coordination and data management for the Prospective Evaluation of Chronic Pancreatitis for Epidemiologic and Translational Studies (PROCCEED) Stu...

May 5th, 2022 - The prevalence of gallstones is 10% and approximately 10% of patients develop acute cholecystitis (AC). AC prevalence increases with age and complications are as high as 30% in patients who do not undergo surgery, the only definitive treatment. Th...

May 10th, 2022 - Obesity, in combination with other risk factors, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in acute pancreatitis (AP); however, body mass index (BMI) alone is not a successful predictor of disease severity, new research shows. “As there.

Mar 31st, 2022 - PARIS, France — Fewer than 1% of patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the branch ducts develop adenocarcinoma after 5 years of follow-up monitoring, according to a French observational study. These findings were presen...

Mar 23rd, 2022 - The addition of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to neoadjuvant gemcitabine and cisplatin (GC) generated a high rate of non–muscle-invasive downstaging following radical cystectomy, which correlated with improved relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall su...

Mar 10th, 2022 - A series of fecal microbiota-based markers predicted pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) "with high accuracy and specificity," potentially making diagnosis at an earlier disease stage more feasible, an analysis found. Based on a set of 27 micr...

Mar 9th, 2022 - A specific panel of fecal microbiota is highly sensitive at distinguishing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) from other high-risk disease types, including chronic pancreatitis and type 2 diabetes. Moreover, the panel can identify PDAC regard...