Voorbeelden van pancreatitis

• Suggested aetiological factors include cigarette smoking, high-fat diets, alcohol, chronic pancreatitis and diabetes.

• Concomitant diseases affecting renal, hepatic and cardiopulmonary function at presentation make early clinical assessment of the severity of pancreatitis inaccurate.

• Surprisingly there were fewer episodes of pancreatitis in comparison with control communities.

• In the placebo group, one patient withdrew because of pancreatitis related to alcohol consumption and one patient was withdrawn by the investigator because of treatment non-compliance.

• Differentiation between pancreatitis and cancer is challenging.

• Obstruction of the pancreatic duct because of either a benign or malignant process may result in chronic pancreatitis.

• Serum amylase is normal outside episodes of acute pancreatitis.

• In one large study, there were no patients with pancreatitis who had an elevated amylase with a normal lipase.