Incidence and severity of non alcoholic and non biliary pancreatitis in a gastroenterology department.

Aims: Etiological investigations proposed for patients with acute pancreatitis have been evolving considerably these past few years, significantly limiting the number of cases labeled idiopathic. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of non alcoholic non biliary pancreatitis and identify causes, comparing severity by etiology.

Patient And Methods: This retrospective analysis included 108 patients managed from October 1996 to April 2005.

[Right diverticular colitis revealing an Ehlers-Danlos syndrome].

Introduction: Colic diverticulosis rarely occurs in the young and, in such cases, therefore requires search for a predisposing affection.

Observation: A 25 year-old woman was hospitalised for abdominal pain and fever predominating in the right iliac fossa and leading to the diagnosis of right diverticular colitis. The clinical examination revealed features suggestive of an Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.