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Date Posted: 06:44:53 01/16/24 Tue
Author: Knut Holt
Subject: Re: My pancreas surgery
In reply to: Kyle 's message, "Re: My pancreas surgery" on 05:32:10 01/16/24 Tue

Thanks for more information.

Pancreatitis means inflammation of pancreas, but the inflammation is only a part of the disease process. The underlying process can be infection by virus, bacteria, autoimmune processes, allergy-like processes, etc.

Possibly you got more information also about the underlying process. You said infection, but even that word does not tell everything.

The article describe a procedure where the pancreas gets removed but the parts producing insuline gets retransplanted back into the body.

Possibly the retransplantation feiled or was not done at all.

The articles alsom entioned endoscopic treatmeent or treatment with medicines, which seem to be the first things one will try out, that possibly did not get tried out on you.

The choise of doing such a massive surgery you tell about, still does not seems appropriate at the first hand.

Not anly will it cause diabetes when not done with said reinplantation. It also causes digestive problems, since the pancreas produces many important enzymes, and the gall bladder helps with timely release of liverproducts.

But if the pancreatitis was infetious with certain types of aggressive microbes and the infection had spread to adjacent organs, the problem might have been justiefied.

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