Autoimmune pancreatitis: current status

Abstract

Diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is rather complicated because of low incidence of the disease, insufficient research, scare knowledge about AIP in medical profession, polymorphism of clinical characteristics. Administration of corticosteroid drugs is effective for relief of pancreatic inflammation though its long-term effects on the disease course is not studied well.

Keywords

• autoimmune pancreatitis
• diagnostic criteria
• treatment