Pancreatitis refers to inflammation of the pancreas, an organ located in the back of the upper abdomen, behind the stomach, that secretes hormones and digestive juices. The condition can occur as a ...

Autoimmune pancreatitis often mimics pancreatic cancer, and for clinicians, distinguishing Type 1 (IgG4) from Type 2 (IBD) is ...

Chronic pancreatitis is a long-term progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Alcohol use, chemotherapy, and some autoimmune conditions can cause it. The pancreas is a gland in the upper ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm in my late 50s and was recently diagnosed with pancreatitis. My symptoms came on suddenly. My wife is concerned my symptoms may develop again, and she wants me to have testing to ...

Earlier this week, Travis Barker, the longtime Blink-182 drummer and husband to Kourtney Kardashian, was carried out of his Los Angeles mansion on a stretcher to a local hospital after being diagnosed ...

October 17, 2007 (New Orleans) -- The risk of death nationally after pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis is surprisingly low vs comparable operations for cancer. This may justify more use of this ...

Traditional surgical therapy for chronic pancreatitis includes drainage of the dilated pancreatic duct or segmental resection of affected pancreas. Another option gaining increasing favour is that of ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: I have chronic pancreatitis. Will it help to stop drinking at this point? Or is it too late? DEAR READER: It is never too late to stop further damage to the pancreas, but it may be too ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent early surgery vs. endoscopy-first approach reported a lower Izbicki pain score. Pain was ...

Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer are two of the major diseases affecting the pancreas. Both are serious disorders for which current therapy has not been proven to be effective. Physicians ...

The burden of recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis in children may be higher than previously thought, with high costs related to repeated hospitalizations, report a pair of new studies. The burden ...