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Pancreas transplantation is usually performed in patients with denovo type I diabetes, who have advanced secondary complications. We report a case in which whole pancreaticoduodenal transplantation, with enteric drainage, was performed to correct both endocrine and exocrine deficiencies in a patient with hyperlabile diabetes and steatorrhea, unresponsive to oral enzyme replacement therapy, following staged total pancreatectomy for idiopathic or familial chronic pancreatitis. The transplant was performed one year after completion of native pancreatectomy and immediately established an insulin-independent euglycemic state, with normal oral and intravenous glucose tolerance test results and correction of steatorrhea. Beginning one year posttransplant, the patient had intermittent episodes of steatorrhea, associated with mild elevation of blood sugar levels, which were presumed to be due to rejection and, indeed, responded to antirejection treatment with antilymphocyte globulin and temporary increases in steroids dosages. At 20 months posttransplant, steatorrhea did not respond to antirejection treatment and an acute abdomen developed. Laparotomy revealed a perforated graft duodenum, which was resected; pathology showed transmural necrosis secondary to chronic rejection. The pancreas graft itself was left in situ, disconnected from the intestinal tract. The patient remained normoglycemic after graft duodenectomy but resumed oral enzyme replacement therapy in an attempt to combat recurrence of severe steatorrhea. However, his overall situation remained improved compared to pretransplant, since the exocrine deficiency was tolerable in the absence of a diabetic state. Ten months postgraft duodenectomy (38 months posttransplant), elevations in blood sugar levels were treated with another course of antirejection treatment and levels temporarily declined. At 14 months postgraft duodenectomy (42 months posttransplant), graft endocrine function again declined and exogenous insulin was resumed. Six months later, four years after the original transplant, a new enteric-drained pancreaticoduodenal graft was placed, once again resulting in an insulin-independent, steatorrheafree state. With improvements in immunosuppression, pancreas transplantation could be offered to selected patients with hyperlabile diabetes, following total pancreatectomy for benign disease; if the enteric drainage technique is used, in the absence of rejection, exocrine deficiency could be corrected as well.
Pancreas 1991 Jul
PMID:Pancreaticoduodenal transplantation with enteric drainage following native total pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis: a case report. 187 4

We investigated peripheral lymphocyte subsets in 34 consecutive acute pancreatitis patients (21 males, 13 females; mean age, 57 years; range, 16-85 years) studied within 48 h of pain onset and for 5 consecutive days to understand better the immunological response during the course of the disease. The diagnosis was based on characteristic abdominal pain associated with a twofold increase in serum lipase and confirmed by imaging techniques in all patients. Acute pancreatitis was of biliary origin in 25 patients, due to alcohol abuse in 5, due to pancreas divisum in 1, and of unknown origin in 3. Fifteen patients had severe illness and 19 had mild disease. In all patients, total lymphocyte and lymphocyte subset counts were carried out on admission, as well as on the third and fifth day of hospitalization, using a flow cytometric analysis. Twenty-three patients (13 with severe illness and 10 with mild disease) also had a repeat count 1 month after recovery. Twenty-five healthy subjects and 27 patients with nonpancreatic acute abdomen comparable for sex and age were studied as controls. On the first day of the study, the leukocyte number was significantly higher in patients with acute pancreatitis and in those with nonpancreatic acute abdomen with respect to healthy subjects, whereas the number of total and CD4+, CD8+, CD3+ DR-, and CD3- DR+ lymphocytes was significantly lower in acute pancreatitis patients than in healthy subjects or in patients with nonpancreatic acute abdomen. These subject counts persisted on the third and fifth days of the study.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Pancreas 1995 Jul
PMID:Circulating lymphocyte subsets in human acute pancreatitis. 766 48

Pancreatic cystadenocarcinoma is an extremely rare neoplasm in pregnancy. To our knowledge, there have been 2 published cases of pancreatic mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (PMC) during pregnancy in the literature; one of which was reported to have ruptured into the abdominal cavity. We present a second case of ruptured PMC resulting in acute abdomen in 36 weeks of pregnancy. Rupture of mucinous cystic neoplasms of pancreas including PMC should be remembered in acute abdomen during pregnancy.
Pancreas 2007 May
PMID:An extremely rare cause of acute abdomen in pregnancy: ruptured pancreatic mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. 1744 49