Pancreatic inflammatory disease.

Pancreatic inflammatory disease.

Pancreatic Involvement in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that includes two clinical entities: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Although both entities mainly affect the gastrointestinal tract are considered multisystemic diseases and may present extraintestinal manifestations involving other organs and systems. Pancreatic involvement in Pediatric IBD includes a heterogeneous group of clini...

Natural history of pancreatic involvement in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

BACKGROUND Few case reports describe the clinical features of pancreatic involvement in inflammatory bowel disease. AIM To investigate prevalence and disease course of inflammatory bowel disease children with pancreatitis and with exclusive hyperamylasemia and hyperlipasemia. METHODS We used a web-registry to retrospectively identify paediatric inflammatory bowel disease patients with hyper...

Pancreatic Involvement in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

In this paper we review the existing data concerning the incidence, pathogenesis, clinical picture, management and longterm outcome of patients with IBD who developed acute or chronic pancreatitis before or during the course of their underlying bowel disease. It seems certain that patients with IBD are considered to be at increased risk for developing acute pancreatitis, although large epidemio...

Neonatal Presentation of Unremitting Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Very-early-onset inflammatory bowel disease (VEO-IBD) has a distinct phenotype and should be considered a specific entity. VEO-IBD presents with very severe clinical pictures and is frequently known by an indeterminate colitis whose clinical remission is unmanageable. This study examines the case of a neonate with VEO-IBD, not responding to medical and surgical treatment. A 7-day-old Iranian fe...