The most important conceptual change in understanding chronic pancreatitis is that there is not a single etiology for any patient -- chronic pancreatitis is a complex, multifactorial disorder.

Research in acute pancreatitis continues to explore mechanism whilst devising new treatments and developing better diagnostic methods. Novel treatments like CRAC channel inhibitors as well as ...

Hereditary pancreatitis (HP) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by recurrent acute pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis ... so mutation in them impairs the mechanism of correcting genetic ...

Disclosure: The author declares that he owns the patent for testing for PRSS1 mutations, and has just licensed the patent to Ambry Genetics, Irvine, CA. He also serves as a consultant for Ambry ...