Pancreatitis

Research from Q. Wang and co-authors yields new data on pancreatitis

Published in Hospital Business Week, April 26th, 2009

According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Eosinophilia (>0.5 x 10(9)/L eosinophils [EOSs] in the peripheral blood) has been overlooked in the study of chronic pancreatitis (CP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical significance and causes of eosinophilia by analyzing the features of CP cases with eosinophilia."

"We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of CP patients with eosinophilia and compared them with CP patients without eosinophilia. There were 28 cases (15.6%) of CP with eosinophilia among 180 CP patients. The ratio of male to female patients was 8.3:1. The mean patient age at the time of diagnosis was 49.0...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2009-04-26)

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