Hereditary pancreatitis: tactics of diagnostics and differential diagnostics (clinical case)

Abstract

The article presents a literature review on the main genetic mutations leading to the development of pancreatitis, analyzes the pathogenesis of hereditary pancreatitis and the high risk of pancreatic cancer upon this disease. The authors described their own clinical case of calcificating pancreatitis that developed in a patient with a mutation of the cationic trypsinogen gene. The tactics of treatment and observation is discussed.