Pancreatic function testing is best determined by the extended endoscopic collection technique.

Objective: To evaluate whether the extended secretin-stimulated direct endoscopic pancreatic function test (ePFT) technique is superior to the rapid 15 minute secretin-stimulated ePFT in determining pancreatic exocrine function.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 53 patients with chronic abdominal pain and normal pancreatic imaging. These patients had ePFT testing with the following modified endoscopic collection system.

Acute pancreatitis in patients with Crohn's disease: clinical features and outcomes.

Background: Acute pancreatitis has occasionally been associated with Crohn's disease (CD), but whether a causal association exists remains unclear. We sought to determine the frequency of etiologies in a consecutive series of patients with CD with acute pancreatitis.

Methods: A centralized diagnostic index was used to identify all patients with CD with acute pancreatitis that were evaluated at Mayo Clinic Rochester between 1976 and 2001.