Acute Pancreatitis
One of the oldest predictive criteria used to assess the prognosis of biliary and nonbiliary pancreatitis.
What is ranson criteria?
The most common use of chronic pancreatitis.
What is chronic heavy alcohol use?
Strongest risk factor for pancreatic cancer.
What is smoking?
Pancreatic digestive enzymes are activated in this organ.
What is the duodenum?
This is the meaning of the word pancreas in Greek.
What is "all flesh"?
The most common cause of acute pancreatitis.
What is biliary pancreatitis?
The only known cure for chronic pancreatitis.
What is total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant?
Common imaging finding seen in patients with pancreatic cancer.
What is the double duct sign?
These cells produce somatostatin.
What are delta cells?
Name a 3 syllable word that rhymes with pancreas.
Happiness. Serious. Obvious. Cannabis. Furious. Curious. Ideas. Previous. Cancerous.
Study demonstrating that aggressive fluid resuscitation resulted in a higher incidence of fluid overload without improvement in clinical outcomes in acute pancreatitis.
What is the waterfall trial?
An accumulation of pancreatic fluid in the peritoneal cavity.
What is pancreatic ascites?
Whipple procedure involves the resection of either the entire or part of these five organs.
What is...
CBD, gall bladder, duodenum, pancreatic head, distal stomach?
This part of the pancreas is intraperitoneal.
What is the distal segment of the tail?
This was approximately the year that the pancreas was first described.
What is 300 BC?
A dermatological sign associated with acute pancreatitis.
What is...
Difference in symptoms between exocrine pancreatic insufficiency causing protein indigestion vs. exocrine pancreatic insufficiency causing fat indigestion.
What is epigastric pain vs. steatorrhea?
Median survival for patients who undergo successful resection of pancreas.
What is 18 months?
Name two insulin release inhibitors.
What is...
This famous person died in 2011 due to complications of pancreatic cancer.
What is Steve Jobs?
Increased ________ --> Increased pressure on the sphincter of Oddi --> bile stasis
Increased ________ --> alters composition of bile --> bile is more lithogenic
in a certain group of patients
What is progesterone?
What is estrogen?
Two major gene mutations linked to chronic pancreatitis.
What is PRSS1 and SPRINK1?
Patients with pancreatic cancer are at a very high risk of this blood-related disorder.
What is venous thromboembolism?
Failure of the ventral and dorsal buds to fuse by the 8th week of gestation results in separate drainage of the dorsal and ventral pancreatic ducts via minor and major duodenal papillae respectively
What is pancreas divisum?
Georg Wirsung was likely murdered for this reason.
What is jealousy over the discovery of the main pancreatic duct?