Autoimmune pancreatitis – a single center experience of 22 patients

Introduction: More recently, autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) has established as a new and challenging entity in diagnosis and therapy. Therefore, a capital advance was the international diagnostic criteria for AIP published by the international association of pancreatology in 2011, summarizing diverse preexisting guidelines. Regarding the actual literature, many investigations concerning Asian cohorts of patients with AIP were published, while those concerning western industrial countries are still deficient. It is suggested that there might be differences in patients' characteristics concerning their origin. Mate…