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MEDICAL PROBLEMS: BRIEF
REVIEWS—PANCREATITIS
Michael J
Katz
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Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas, which causes severe, deep, constant upper abdominal pain. Acute pancreatitis is a single episode, from which a patient usually recovers; chronic pancreatitis is an irreversibly damaged pancreas that continues to deteriorate and to be painful. Each year, in the US, there are approximately 70,000 new cases of acute pancreatitis and 25,000 new cases of chronic pancreatitis. Acute pancreatitis is 3 times more common in African Americans than in whites. In the US, gallstones and alcoholism are the 2 most common identifiable causes of acute pancreatitis . . .
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