title: Pancreatitis in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
abstract: We describe six patients with acute pancreatitis associated with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and no other etiological factor of pancreatic disease in a series of 513 patients with IBD. Five of the 6 patients had Crohn's disease and one indeterminate colitis; four had simultaneous symptoms of active colitis. The pancreatis was not caused by drugs or duodenal involvement of IBD. Our study suggests that pancreatic disease is one of the extra-intestinal manifestations of IBD, in particular of Crohn's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University Central Hospital of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Niemelä
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lehtola
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Karttunen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lähde
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003092:Colitis / Q000150:complications; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis