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Chronic pancreatitis – causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology
Management ●Chronic pancreatitis is an ongoing process of pathologic response to pancreatic injury. Abdominal pain is the most common clinical symptom. As chronic pancreatitis progresses, patients may develop exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (steatorrhea, maldigestion) and diabetes. Complications of chronic pancreatitis include pancreatic pseudocyst, bile duct or duodenal obstruction, visceral artery pseudoaneurysm, pancreatic ascites and pancreatic […]
Peptic Ulcer Disease- Mechanisms and Treatment – Lecturio Medical
etiology and pathogenesis ●Estimates of the annual incidence of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) range from 0.1 to 0.3 percent. PUD incidence in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-infected individuals is approximately 1 percent per year, a rate that is 6- to 10-fold higher than for uninfected subjects. The incidence of PUD increases with age for both duodenal and […]
