...Asif Khalid; John Dewitt; N. Paul Ohori; Jey-Hsin Chen; Kenneth E. Fasanella; Michael Sanders; Kevin M. McGrath; Marina Nikiforova Background/Aims: Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) may mimic pancreatic cancer (PC). The detection of DNA mutations in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration...

...Christoph Rehnitz; Miriam Klauss; Reinhard Singer; Robert Ehehalt; Jens Werner; Markus W. Büchler; Hans-Ulrich Kauczor; Lars Grenacher Background/Aims: To retrospectively evaluate the morphologic characteristics of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) using MRI and CT. Methods: 86 dynamic contrast...

...László Czakó; Tibor Gyökeres; Lajos Topa; Péter Sahin; Tamás Takács; Áron Vincze; Zsolt Dubravcsik; Attila Szepes; Ákos Pap; Imre Földesi; Viktória Terzin; László Tiszlavicz; Tibor Wittmann Background: To date, most cases of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) have been reported from Japan. The aim...

...Michael J. Levy; Thomas C. Smyrk; Naoki Takahashi; Lizhi Zhang; Suresh T. Chari Background/Aims: Recent data demonstrate the presence of two autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) subtypes. All existing endoscopic ultrasonography-guided trucut biopsy (EUS-TCB) data pertain to type 1 disease. Our aim...

...Suresh T. Chari; Guenter Kloeppel; Lizhi Zhang; Kenji Notohara; Markus M. Lerch; Tooru Shimosegawa; for the Autoimmune Pancreatitis International Cooperative Study Group Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) has been extensively reported from Japan, Europe and the USA. While the descriptions of AIP from...

... pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma. We investigated the presence of conserved sequences of Helicobacter in pancreatic tissue and pancreatic juice from patients with chronic nonautoimmune and autoimmune pancreatitis as well as pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Methods: 35 pancreatic juices collected...

...Brit Fitzner; Stephanie-Anna Holzhueter; Saleh Ibrahim; Horst Nizze; Robert Jaster Background: T helper 1 cell-released pro-inflammatory cytokines have been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), but the experimental database is small. Here, we have directly tested...

..., dLaboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Marseille, eInserm Unité 624, Parc scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France Key Words Acute pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis Autoimmune pancreatitis Drug-induced pancreatitis Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography Fecal elastase test...

...T. Kamisawa; H. Nakajima; N. Egawa; N. Funata; K. Tsuruta; A. Okamoto Background and Aims: Autoimmune pancreatitis is usually associated with elevated serum IgG4 concentrations, and sometimes with sclerosing cholangitis and Sjögren’s syndrome. This study aimed to elucidate the proposed entity...

... Words Pancreatitis Serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 1 Pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor Mutational analysis Familial pancreatitis Autoimmune pancreatitis Abstract Background/Aims: Recent studies have shown an association between the N34S mutation in the serine protease inhibitor Kazal...

...Terumi Kamisawa; Masami Yoshiike; Naoto Egawa; Hitoshi Nakajima; Kouji Tsuruta; Atsutake Okamoto Background: Steroid therapy is currently common treatment for autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP); however, indications of steroid therapy have yet to be established, and the clinical course after steroid...

...Ilgin Özden; Ferhunde Dizdaroğlu; Arzu Poyanlı; Ali Emre Background: Autoimmune pancreatitis is an evolving entity. Methods: A patient who had spontaneous regression of a pancreatic head mass and biliary obstruction due to autoimmune pancreatitis is presented. Results: A 58-year-old diabetic woman...

...Toshiro Fukui; Kazuichi Okazaki; Hazuki Yoshizawa; Shinya Ohashi; Hiroyuki Tamaki; Kimio Kawasaki; Minoru Matsuura; Masanori Asada; Hiroshi Nakase; Yasuaki Nakashima; Akiyoshi Nishio; Tsutomu Chiba We report a very rare case of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) associated with sclerosing cholangitis...

... in obstructive and autoimmune pancreatitis in that both structural and functional changes recover almost completely when the obstruction is removed or the inflammatory changes disappear following steroid administration. Even in chronic pancreatitis defined as irreversible, there must be a reversible stage during...

...Takeshi Saito; Shigeki Tanaka; Hitoshi Yoshida; Tsunao Imamura; Junichi Ukegawa; Tetsuya Seki; Akitoshi Ikegami; Fuyuhiko Yamamura; Tetsuya Mikami; Yuji Aoyagi; Junichi Niikawa; Keiji Mitamura We report a case of autoimmune pancreatitis without obvious evidence of autoimmunological participation...