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Overview
History and Symptoms
Patients with chronic pancreatitis usually present with:
- Persistent abdominal pain with episodic flares may or may not be associated with food intake[1][2][3][4]. Typical features of pain are:
- Located in the epigastrium
- Radiating to the back
- May be associated with nausea and vomiting
- Usually worse 15-30min after meal
- Initially it occurs in discrete episodes but later on as the disease progresses, it changes to continuous-like pattern
- Steatorrhea resulting from malabsorption of the fats in food (greasy, loose, very bad smelling stools that are difficult to flush away)
- Severe nausea
- Weight loss
References
- ↑ Ammann RW, Akovbiantz A, Largiader F, Schueler G (1984). "Course and outcome of chronic pancreatitis. Longitudinal study of a mixed medical-surgical series of 245 patients". Gastroenterology. 86 (5 Pt 1): 820–8. PMID 6706066.
- ↑ Lankisch PG, Seidensticker F, Löhr-Happe A, Otto J, Creutzfeldt W (1995). "The course of pain is the same in alcohol- and nonalcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis". Pancreas. 10 (4): 338–41. PMID 7792289.
- ↑ Warshaw AL (1984). "Pain in chronic pancreatitis. Patients, patience, and the impatient surgeon". Gastroenterology. 86 (5 Pt 1): 987–9. PMID 6706079.
- ↑ Layer P, Yamamoto H, Kalthoff L, Clain JE, Bakken LJ, DiMagno EP (1994). "The different courses of early- and late-onset idiopathic and alcoholic chronic pancreatitis". Gastroenterology. 107 (5): 1481–7. PMID 7926511.