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2019


Digestion


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Clinical Course of Chronic Pancreatitis in Elderly Patients.

Authors

Hirth M, Härtel N, Weiss C, Hardt P, Gubergrits N, Ebert MP, Schneider A
Digestion. 2019; 100(3):152-159.
PMID: 30630169.

Abstract

Several guidelines recommend the risk-adapted monitoring of patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP). However, dedicated risk stratification is widely missing in CP. Elderly-CP (disease onset with 60 or more years of age) may represent a subgroup of CP subjects with a distinct course of disease.