Alcohol-induced pancreatic injury.

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Alcoholic pancreatitis is a major complication of alcohol abuse. Until recently, it was generally accepted that alcoholic pancreatitis was a chronic disease from the outset. However, evidence is now emerging in support of the 'necrosis-fibrosis' hypothesis that alcoholic pancreatitis begins as an acute process and that repeated episodes of acute injury lead to the changes of chronic pancreatitis (acinar atrophy...

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