Steroid treatment improves the exocrine and endocrine insufficiency, and the clinical and morphologic alterations in autoimmune pancreatitis

Background. Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a recently recognized clinical entity which accounts for approximately 5% of chronic pancreatitis. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one report of AIP in Hungary; however, the exocrine and endocrine pancreatic function and the response to therapy were not studied. We describe a case of AIP in which the symptoms, morphologic alterations and exocrine and endocrine insufficiency regressed after a short course of oral steroid therapy. Patient. A 62-year-old teetotal female presented with a 4-month history of recurrent epigastric pain and a 5-kg weight loss…