Acute recurrent pancreatitis: An autoimmune disease?

Table 6 Clinical characteristic, medical/surgical treatment and complications of autoimmune pancreatitis patients with recurrent pancreatitis

Study	No.patients with acute recurrent pancreatitis	Age at diagnosis (yr)	Sex	Localization	No. of recurrences	Surgery	No. of operation	Type of surgery	Steroid therapy	Improvement with steroids	Pancreatic complication
Borum[140]	1	34	Female	Tail	2	Yes	1	DP	Yes	No	Calcifications
											Pseudocyst
Wakabayashi[13]	3	NR	NR	NR	1	No			NR		NR
Hardacre[142]	1	NR	NR	NR	NR	Yes	1	NR	No		NR
Weber[145]	1	NR	NR	NR	1	No			No		NR
Fernandez-del Castillo[141]	1	36	Male	Head	> 2	Yes	1	PD	NR		NR
Zamboni[146]	1	49	Male	Head	1	Yes	1	PD	No		No
Tanvetyanon[143]	1	44	Male	Diffuse	> 10	No			Yes	Yes	Pseudocysts
Wayne[144]	5	30 (25-39)1	5 females	3 tail,	2-> 10	Yes	1 (1-3)*	4 DP,	1/5	No	1 pseudocyst,
				2 diffuse				2 PD,			1 calcifications
								1 PP,
								1 TP
Abisi[139]	1	78	Male	Diffuse	4	Yes	2	1 DP,	Yes	Yes	Calcifications
								1 CJ+G			Pseudocyst

DP: Distal pancreatectomy; PD: Pancreaticoduodenectomy; PP: Puestow procedure; TP: Total pancreatectomy; CJ: Choledochojejunostomy; G: Gastroenterostomy; NR: Not reported.

¹median and (range).