Concomitant autoimmune and genetic pancreatitis leads to severe inflammatory conditions

  • World J Gastroenterol. 2008 Apr 28;14(16):2596-8. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.2596.
Jean-Louis Frossard  1 ,  Jean-Marc Dumonceau ,  Catherine Pastor ,  Laurent Spahr ,  Antoine Hadengue
Affiliations
  • 1. Division de Gastroentérologie et Hépatologie, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva 1205, Switzerland. [email protected]
PMID: 18442214 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.2596
Abstract

Chronic pancreatitis characterized by an early onset should be extensively investigated including the search for a mutation of the PRSS1, SPINK-1 or CFTR genes and potential features of autoimmune pancreatitis. We here describe a case of chronic pancreatitis with an onset at a very young age in which a mutation of the PRSS1 and several features of autoimmune pancreatitis were identified.