Outcome and quality of life in chronic pancreatitis.
2001; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 2; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
Autores
G. Talamini, Claudio Bassi, Giovanni Butturini, Massimo Falconi, Luca Casetti, Andrew A. Gumbs, Silvia Carrara, Alberto Fantin, Paolo Pederzoli,
Tópico(s)Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
ResumoChronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disorder that causes abdominal pain, various local complications and endocrine-exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. In Western countries it is correlated with alcohol abuse in about 75% of cases, constituting a disease process with devastating social consequences since the patients can also become opiate dependent. The evolution of CP is not easy to study secondary to its relative rarity, delay in diagnosis (on the average 1.5 years after the onset of symptoms), and above all, its long course, on the order of decades, with the average age of onset being around 40 years of age. In any case because the evolution of the disease often lasts longer than the involvement of the doctors in the various research projects, many experiences of generations of researchers in a specific referral period are effectively lost.
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