Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis

Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive inflammatory disorder that leads to irreversible destruction of exocrine and endocrine pancreatic parenchyma caused by atrophy and/ or replacement with fibrotic tissue. Functional consequences include severe abdominal pain, diabetes mellitus, and malabsorption.

The most common cause of chronic pancreatitis is drinking a lot of alcohol over a long period of time.. Other causes include An attack of acute pancreatitis that damages your pancreatic ducts. A blockage of the main pancreatic duct caused by cancer.

Chronic pancreatitis can cause complications in other parts of the body. Part of treating the disease is to treat and manage those complications. Depending on the complication and the severity, we can treat it endoscopically, surgically or using percutaneous therapy.