Pancreatitis can result in exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, if the organ's acinar cells are permanently damaged; the pancreatic enzymes then need replacement with pancrelipase or similar products.
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Treatment of pancreatic insufficiency by replacement of missing digestive enzymes allows the duodenum to properly absorb nutrients and vitamins that would otherwise be lost in the feces.
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"' Shwachman Diamond syndrome "'( SDS ) or "'Shwachman Bodian Diamond syndrome "'is a rare congenital disorder characterized by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, bone marrow dysfunction, skeletal abnormalities, and short stature.
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Additionally, German Shepherds have a higher than normal incidence of Von Willebrand disease, a common inherited bleeding disorder, and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency ( EPI ), a degenerative disease of the pancreas.
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If off-loaded, it would cut down on the length but I doubt that the replacement list of symptoms such as " bronchiectasis, recurrent pneumonia, pancreatic insufficiency, distal intestinal obstruction, etc " would really be preferable!
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will give as much as $ 25 million to Altus Biologics Inc . of Cambridge, Mass . to help develop a drug to treat pancreatic insufficiency, a condition that affects most cystic fibrosis patients.
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After nearly 3 years of sickness, Yani was euthanised on 20 March 2002 due to a total immune collapse and pancreatic insufficiency, which led to her mouth developing sores and made her forever hungry yet unable to eat.
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"We believe that this new product could offer significant advantages over existing therapies to treat pancreatic insufficiency and, in the long run, improve nutrition for patients with cystic fibrosis, " said Robert J . Beall, the foundation's president and chief executive.
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Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency occurs in the majority ( 85 % to 90 % ) of patients with CF . It is mainly associated with " severe " CFTR mutations, where both alleles are completely nonfunctional ( e . g . ?F508 / ?F508 ).
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Refractory coeliac disease should not be confused with the persistence of symptoms despite gluten withdrawal caused by transient conditions derived from the intestinal damage, which generally revert or improve several months after starting a gluten-free diet, such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, lactose intolerance, sorbitol malabsorption, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and microscopic colitis, among others.
