[Genetic susceptibility to pancreatitis].

Article

[Genetic susceptibility to pancreatitis].

Khirurgiia - 1 Jan 1997

Petrov P, Toncheva D, Zŭnzov I, Tsoneva M

Abstract excerpt

Pancreatitis is a complicated polyetiological disease rather frequently met with. Inflammatory degenerative changes in the pancreas are the underlying cause of the condition which in acute cases may give rise to irreversible pancreonecrosis, and in chronic ones--to fibrosis development and severe...

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Acute Disease
Chronic Disease
Disease Susceptibility
Female
Humans
Male
Mutation
Pancreatitis
Phenotype
Recurrence
alpha 1-Antitrypsin
alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

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