"Though patients can have the same clinical diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis, they can have very different underlying molecular drivers of that disease, which makes treatment especially difficult," ...

Risk factors for type 2 diabetes and features associated with pancreatic severity were associated with the risk of diabetes in patients with chronic pancreatitis. A study published in Diabetes Care ...

Approximately three million people worldwide struggle with chronic pancreatitis, for which there is no cure. In a study published in Cell Stem Cell titled “Patient-derived organoids reveal ductal ...

Chronic pancreatitis, a painful, debilitating condition, often requires major surgery to remove all or part of the pancreas. Few large studies have evaluated how these patients fare five years or more ...

A deep learning (DL)–based model achieved a high accuracy in pancreas segmentation for patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) and healthy individuals, a new study finds. The model showed robust ...

Researchers used a self-reported electronic body map and found that 64% of patients with chronic pancreatitis who reported abdominal pain had widespread pain, and this pain was linked to severe pain ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new antioxidant biomaterial that someday could provide much-needed relief to people living with chronic pancreatitis. The study will be published ...

A patient is diagnosed with acute pancreatitis How can a clinician distinguish chronic pancreatitis from acute pancreatitis in a patient with alcohol-abuse history? A 44-year-old male patient with a ...

Survival 90 days after surgery is high, but 10-year survival rates are lower, with many patients struggling with persistent substance and opioid use after surgery CHICAGO (January 24, 2023): Chronic ...