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Review

Pancreatitis Overview

Celeste Shelton  1 , Jessica LaRusch  2 , David C Whitcomb  3
Margaret P Adam, Jerry Feldman, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
, editors.
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].
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Pancreatitis Overview

Celeste Shelton et al.
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Excerpt

The purpose of this overview is:

  1. 1

    Define pancreatitis;

  2. 2

    Review the risk factors and etiologies of recurrent acute pancreatitis / chronic pancreatitis;

  3. 3

    Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of pancreatitis in a proband (when possible);

  4. 4

    Review management of pancreatitis;

  5. 5

    Inform genetic risk assessment and surveillance of at-risk relatives for detection of early treatable manifestations of hereditary pancreatitis.

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