Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. Acute pancreatitis occurs when symptoms appear suddenly. These may include pain in the upper left abdomen that spreads to the back, fever, nausea, ...

Tim Bergling, the Swedish DJ and electronic dance music producer known as Avicii, suffered from pancreatitis and a number of other serious health conditions in the years before he was found dead ...

The United Kingdom and Brazil have issued warnings about a possible link between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and pancreatic ...

The management of alcoholic pancreatitis is mostly reactive; little is done to prevent disease progression. It is time for physicians to pay attention to the root cause of the condition—that is, ...

Following a warning by a UK regulator about a small risk of severe acute pancreatitis with weight loss jabs, Medical News Today spoke to 3 experts about who is most at risk and whether the benefits ...

Chronic pancreatitis is a long-term and progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Alcohol use, chemotherapy, and some autoimmune conditions can cause it. The most common cause of chronic ...

Patients who develop acute pancreatitis are at increased risk of subsequent pancreatic cancer, with the highest rates in the first years after the acute episode but remaining elevated beyond 5 years, ...

Idiopathic pancreatitis is often caused by small gallstones that are difficult to observe prior to surgery, shows a study. Small gallstones were found in surgery from two out of three idiopathic ...

The term “autoimmune pancreatitis” (or “autoimmune-related pancreatitis”) was introduced by Yoshida et al. in 1995 to describe the form of chronic pancreatitis that is associated with autoimmune ...

BOSTON — Clinicians at internal medicine and endocrinology meetings recently presented case reports describing pancreatitis in patients taking tirzepatide. In one case, a 64-year-old patient died.

Necrotizing pancreatitis is a severe form of pancreatitis and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. We report a case of necrotizing pancreatitis that developed following combined ...