Basic and clinical researches on chronic pancreatitis

Abstract

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas in individualswith genetic, environmental, and/or other risk factors. In recent years, CP has aroused extensive attentions of theresearchers worldwide and several high qualified clinical guidelines and studies were published. CP is characterized by increasing incidence, complex etiology and pathogenesis, variable clinical courses, difficult early diagnosis, and low life quality of patients. A plenty of issues in basic and clinical researches of CP need to be explainedand solved. This review outlined the important basic and clinical researches of CP currently, to provide some references for this field.

Keywords

• chronic pancreatitis
• pathogenesis
• clinical course
• diagnosis
• treatment