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Pure pancreatic juice from patients with chronic pancreatitis has an impaired antibacterial activity.
Int J Pancreatol
December 1997
Gastroenterology Service, S. Anna Hospital, Como, Italy.
Conclusion: These data show that pure pancreatic juice of AICP patients has a markedly defective antibacterial activity. This finding might be of potential clinical interest in the understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease.
Background: The aim of the present study was to test the antibacterial activity of pure pancreatic juice in patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Function tests in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis. Critical evaluation.
Int J Pancreatol
August 1993
Department of Internal Medicine, Municipal Hospital of Lüneberg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Direct pancreatic function tests, such as the secretin-pancreozymin test and the Lundh test, are--by direct measurement of the contents of duodenal secretion following exogenous (hormonal) or endogenous (test meal) stimulation--the best way to assess exocrine pancreatic function. However, these tests are time-consuming, invasive, and expensive, and therefore their use is limited to specialized centers only. Several studies have shown that indirect pancreatic function tests are a practicable alternative to direct pancreatic function tests for diagnosing exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExocrinous performance of the pancreatic gland under secretin-pancreozymin stimulation was studied in 76 patients with chronic diffuse diseases of the liver who were distinguished into 6 groups: those who suffered from chronic persistent hepatitis of viral and alcohol origin, chronic active hepatitis of viral origin, cirrhosis of the liver of viral and alcohol origin, primary biliary hepatocirrhosis. The results obtained were correlated with those from 11 normal persons (controls). Out of 76 examinees the disorders of exocrinous performance of the pancreatic gland were revealed in 75 persons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExamination of the exocrine function of the pancreas, carried out with secretin-pancreozymin test in patients with adrenal diseases, has shown two errors, that may be easily corrected, usually made in such examinations. One of these errors is neglected analysis of the basal secretion, that may be informative in a number of cases; the other, resultant from the first one, is comparison of the stimulated secretion with but one basal period sample, that eventually leads to inaccurate results. An adequate picture of the exocrine pancreatic secretion may be obtained if the methods of investigation are changed, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh amount of dietary carbohydrate does not cause an adaptational increase of stimulated human pancreatic amylase secretion.
Int J Pancreatol
May 1989
Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Steglitz der FU Berlin, FRG.
In order to investigate whether the human pancreas is capable of adapting to a diet with high-carbohydrate, low-fat, and normal protein content, 10 healthy volunteers were given a defined elemental diet (60% of calories as carbohydrates, 22% as fat, and 18% as protein) for 7 d. For the next 7 d they received an elemental diet with a further increased carbohydrate content (76% of calories) and a decreased fat content (10% of calories). A complete secretin-pancreozymin test was carried out at the end of the first wk and at d 14.
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