Prevalence of primary painless chronic pancreatitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

While pain is the predominant symptom of chronic pancreatitis (CP), a subset of patients may experience a painless course. This systematic review aimed to determine the prevalence of primary painless CP.

Methods

MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE and Web of Science Core Collection databases were searched for published studies through September 15, 2020 that included at least 10 consecutive patients with CP and which reported the number with painless CP. The presence of a history of recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP), exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), diabetes mellitus (DM) and pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) in the painless CP patients was also recorded. A random effects model was used to determine pooled prevalence estimates with 95% confidence intervals (

SUBMITTER: Bhullar FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785146 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature