Publication details
Autoimunní pankreatitida v České republice - region Jižní Morava
| Title in English | Autoimunne pancreatitis in Czech republic - region southerm Moravia |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Česká a slovenská gastroenterologie a hepatologie |
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| Field | Other specializations of internal medicine |
| Keywords | autoimunne pancreatitis; autoantibodies against organs; steroids |
| Description | Autoimunne pancreatitis forms 4 - 6% of all idiophatic chronic pancreatitis.In region of Southern Moravia among 128 patients suffering from chronic idiopathic pancreatitis in 6 patients an autoimmune pancreatis agreed to so called Japanese criteria was proved. Only in two patients there was not present any other autoimmune disease, but in the rest an autoimmune hepatitis, Sjórgrens syndroma and primary sclerosing cholangitis was demostrated. The steroid treatment diminished symptoms and improved biochemistry. |