Chronic Pancreatitis And Diabetes News and Recent Updates
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Sick Detained Immigrant to Appeal to U.N. for Help
A 61-year-old Jamaican man who spent three decades working in New York is likely to die of medical neglect in a Louisiana immigration detention center unless the United Nations intervenes, says an urgent petition that his advocates plan to submit to the international organization on Friday.
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Fatal Babesiosis in Man, Finland, 2004
Author affiliations: University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland ; Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Helsinki ; South Karelia Central Hospital, Lappeenranta, Finland ; and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki Abstract We report an unusual case of human babesiosis in Finland in a 53-year-old man with no history of splenectomy.
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Small advances in fight against pancreatic cancer
Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 14, 2010 at 10:56 a.m. Rarely is it said that someone is lucky to have had cancer.
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Targeting two important risk factors for cardiovascular disease
It's well known that the prevalence of diabetes is on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , about 23.6 million, or nearly 8 percent of people in the United States, have diabetes, and 1.6 million new cases are diagnosed each year in people aged 20 and older.
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Woman's Jail Death Caused by Surgical Tube Left in Her Body
A Russian businesswoman who died in jail while awaiting trial was killed by a tube that surgeons had left in her body after an operation, investigators said Friday.
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Botched surgery killed detained fraud suspect
A RUSSIAN businesswoman who died in jail while awaiting trial was killed by a tube that surgeons had left in her body after an operation, investigators said yesterday.
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Investigator: Tube left in body after surgery caused death of jailed Moscow businesswoman
A Russian businesswoman who died in jail while awaiting trial was killed by a tube that surgeons had left in her body after an operation, investigators said Friday.
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Russian woman's jail death caused by surgical tube
A Russian businesswoman who died in jail while awaiting trial was killed by a tube that surgeons had left in her body after an operation, investigators said Friday.
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Pancreatic cancer is difficult to treat
Rarely is it said that someone is lucky to have had cancer. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court might be one such person.
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Advances Against Pancreatic Cancer
Dr. Eileen Oa Reilly, a pancreatic cancer expert at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, joins the Consults blog to answer reader questions.
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Chronic Pancreatitis And Diabetes Answers
Resolved Question: what happens during and after pancreas removal?
hi guys... a little dismal today and i need some help
so, my grandpa has chronic pancreatitis for the past month....... now he has finally went to a specialist and ...um well he has to have .. his pancreas out. so i need to know what will happen to him when he undergoes the surgery and what he will have to do after. (like what can he eat, what he can do) plus he already got his gallbladder out. any good detailed info or form a doctor's diagnosis would be great!! please pray 4 him! thanks you guys... !
oh p.s. he also has diabetes.
moreResolved Question: anyone else have a cat with chronic pancreatitis or diabetes?
She gets steroid shots bi-weekly to keep down the vomiting but still vomits bile and blood. We give her painkiller meds every day. We are "maintaining" her, trying to keep her comfortable. She had been eating well but has become picky. We decided on no more heroic treatments (hydration, force feeding) because she becomes so frantic, whether we do it or the vet. Anyone else have these problems? How do you handle them? Any idea of the time prognosis or what to watch for?
Vet says she may slide into diabetes. What's the outlook for that? Please don't say, see your vet, we're there every week. I am trying to take care of her as best I can.
moreResolved Question: what KIND of diabetes?
I know this is a question for my endocrinologist, but I'm not due to see him for a little bit, and I am just curious.
I was diagnosed with diabetes over a year ago, but no one ever told me if it was type 1 or 2 or anything. I WAS told at one point BEFORE I developed diabetes that I was prediabetic and in danger of developing Type 2, because I have PCOS. But, that's not how I got diabetes! I had a very bad case of Pancreatitis that did damage to my pancreas. As a result, I have chronic pancreatitis, and I have to take pancreatic enzymes (creon) and insulin (lantis) and my sugar is not all that well controlled. I already have neuropathy and vision changes. I suspect that clinically speaking I have both types 1 &2?!? I read this is possible and sometimes referred to as "double diabetes" but i cannot find too much on the subject.
Again, I am going to ask my doctor, but in the mean time I was hoping someone who is knowledgeable about this subject could explain it to me? Thank you.to the first poster, thank you, but I think you misunderstood, I AM on insulin every day.
moreResolved Question: I believe my fathers death was a product of involuntary euthanasia need advice?
My father was very ill. He had chronic pancreatitis, copd, diabetes, and has been living with these conditions for the last 8 years with it starting from the pancreatitis. He has been married to my stepmom for only 10 of these 8 years and it is very obvious that he has been a burden for her. He has been in and out of the hospital for the last couple of weeks but my main concern is the events that happened 3 days before his death (my father was only 47). My stepmother kept making comments about how she wanted them to just stop treating his diabetes and remove his oxygen help (he'd been living with for 4 years). I explained to her that that would be murder it is the hospitals obligation to continue to treat what they had been treating before. My father was still eating on his own, going to the bathroom, and drinking on his own but, was heavily sedated. In his last day of life in the hospital there was talk of my step mom wanting to set him up with hospice and was asking questions about what she could do (take him off oxygen,stop checking his sugar etc). Before she left for the night she requested they give my father something for the pain (pancreatitis) and they gave him a dose of morphine. As soon as she left his stats started dropping quickly. His o2 saturation was at 33 and pulse had dropped to 67. The nurse came in checked on him and was going to clean him up cause he had soiled himself. I accepted as did my sister that it was close (not realizing the morphine could be the cause) and when they moved him around it woke him up enough to pick up all his sats. I called my step mom and told her what happened and she came back to the hospital. We waited a whole 7 hours with no change he was very sedated and non responsive from the drugs but stats were fine and showing no signs of discomfort or pain. The nurse had told me too that she thought it was the morphine that sent him over the edge. So after 7 hours of nothing...my step mom talked to the nurse even though my dad was having no pain and asked for more morphine. She also told the nurse not to treat his sugar that was getting dangerously low. She didn't even let the nurse take it but, when the nurse left she took it and it was 68. I explained how I was very uncomfortable with giving him more pain meds and not treating the sugar but was ignored. She started talking about taking him off his regular oxygen mask too and I was very much against it so she did not. This was about 2am when the first dose of pain meds was given (with no sign of pain) somehow an hour later when more family arrived he woke up and started talking to everyone and was awake and alert for about 10 min and my step mom after that ordered MORE morphine "for pain" that he wasn't having (he also had just had a dose an hour before) that was about 4am his breathing started to get slower after that but he was relaxed. The nurse kept coming in and asking my step mom if she was ready for "that" twice...finally about 530 am my step mom said yes. I immediatley said WHAT IS THAT! and she said oh, your dad is getting a little anxious so its some anti anxitey meds. ( still he was not moving, moaning, his stats were not showing a sign of pain, he was not gasping for air just breathing very slow) he passed an hour later. I need answers! I truly feel that this was not ethical nor legal.She was ofcourse being his wife his medical power of attorney. However I didn't think it gave her the right to play GOD so to speak. Morphine is very risky for copd patients from what i've read and apparently she was "friends" or the nurse was "a customer" of hers and even joked so are you going to let me cut in line now? I believe she came in and did say I got a doctors ok to give pain meds every 30 min. as needed which i thought was weird cause my father was not in pain?? And, if the doctor knew the effects of the pain meds on a copd paitient why would he allow such a high dosage to be given so frequently? I mentioned today I wanted a copy of his medical records and she got very defensive and said "what do you want those for"? and I said I just strongly feel like something is wrong and she said well "i don't want to talk about this right now!" 4 doses of a powerful narcotic and a dose of a sedative/"anti anxiety" to be administered within 3 hours seems excessive for someone sleeping?
moreResolved Question: How bad is pancreatitis?
I have had idiopathic chronic pancreatitis for around 3 years now. How likely am I to get diabetes or cancer from this down the road?
I have malabsorption, indigestion, and fatigue but no pain. Rarely have pain just abdominal itching sometimes.
BrianFirst off thank you for your answers. My doctor can't find the cause. He is stumped and very concerned. He has ran CAT scans, Ultrasounds, Gallbladder studies, blood work. The only finding was thick bile. I don't want diabetes. How long do you think I have?
moreResolved Question: PANCREAS CANCER! Please read now......................!?
For the past 2 months my Grandma in the Philippines is suffering from
Pancreas Cancer and I am very sad that she is in stage 4. It has been two years since we last hugged each other I am just wondering, what is the cause of her disease? I look at wiki but I don't know which one:
Age (particularly over 60)[2]
Male gender
African-American ethnicity[2]
Smoking. Cigarette smoking nearly doubles one's risk, and the risk persists for at least a decade after quitting. [5]
Diets low in vegetables and fruits[citation needed]
Diets high in red meat[6]
Obesity[7]
Diabetes mellitus
Chronic pancreatitis has been linked, but is not known to be causal
Helicobacter pylori infection
Family history, 5-10% of pancreatic cancer patients have a family history of pancreatic cancer. The genes responsible for most of this clustering in families have yet to be identified. Pancreatic cancer has been associated with the following syndromes; autosomal recessive ataxia-telangiectasia and autosomal dominantly inherited mutations in the BRCA2 gene, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome due to mutations in the STK11 tumor suppressor gene, hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (Lynch syndrome), familial adenomatous polyposis, and the familial atypical multiple mole melanoma-pancreatic cancer syndrome (FAMMM-PC) due to mutations in the CDKN2A tumor suppressor gene.[8][1]
Gingivitis or periodontal disease.[9]
Alcohol might be a risk factor – see Pancreatic cancer section in Alcohol and cancer
When I lived with her for a decade, she did not qualify to all the things that I listed above EXCEPT she is 74 years old OR maybe she ate dirty foods. Please pray for my grandma because she has 3 months to live.
moreResolved Question: Looking for help in applying for Social Security Disability, trying to find examples in submitting my request.
I suffer from the following illness Chronic Pancreatitis; Diabetes (Type 1); Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain; Diabetic Gastroparesis; Hypertension; Hypothyroid; Nosocomephobia; Parkinson’s Disease; Severe Depression Sleep Apena (use CPAP Machine) Two Heart Attacks (permanent heart damage) I haven't been able to work full time since Dec 2004, was able to work part time up until Nov 2006. One of the major issues for this is my Nosocomephobia, I have a true fear of hospitals, and usually check myself out against doctor recommendations. I do alot of self medicating or just suffer through the pain. I am not afraid of doctor's, have lots of medical records at doctor's office, and Urgent Care Stations. I would just like to find some examples and tips on how to get approved as fast as I can for my family's sake, or go for Life Insurance Money. If anyone has any helpful info I would really appreciate it. Finances are getting tough, and I am sinking deeper and deeper into depression
moreResolved Question: Is there something wrong or am I just crazy?
This just does not make any sense. I was checked 2 years ago for diabetes after a 12 hour fast and it was 109 and the doc said that 111 or higher indicated diabetes and I was borderline. Well, I have had pain in my stomach, under my rib cage for about 2 years and was checked for diabetes about a month ago and it was 125 and the doc said 126 was diabetes, not to worry. Then I developed chronic pancreatitis. My biology class is experimenting with elimination diet (eliminate carbs and sugar) so this week is a control week. We don't change our diet but had to check blood sugar and my fasting count was Monday 145, Tuesday, 101, Wednesday, 124, Thursday 187, and today it was 191! So what the hell does this mean? I have an appointment again on Monday, but if it is under 125 are they going to ignore me again? What do you think? Could this be diabetes or am I just messed in the head?
moreResolved Question: Has anyone had a permanent feeding tube inserted to treat chronic pancreatitis and diabetes?
My father has lost down to 106 lbs and been told by the doctor there is no way he can absorb enough food even with taking enzymes. They're looking at options for feeding tubes so when he gets out of the hospital he can maintain somewhat of a normal life without continuing to lose weight. I'm looking for anyone who has experienced something similar. Thank you.Does the tube have to be permanent? Is there a way he can hook up as needed, but still be active during the day? He's only 54 and has a huge zest for life, so will NOT be bed-ridden. Our doctor is currently exploring all options and we're hopeful there will be a solution that will allow him to maintain his activity, but still get the nourshment needed. possible?
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