Afghani E

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2022-2024
2024
Pancreatic quantitative sensory testing to predict treatment response of endoscopic therapy or surgery for painful chronic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct obstruction: study protocol for an observational clinical trial.
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081505

IntroductionTreatment for abdominal pain in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) remains challenging in the setting of central nervous system sensitisation, a phenomenon of remodelling and neuronal hyperexcitability resulting from persis…

2022
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Trends in Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Outcomes.
Hematology/oncology clinics of North America ·doi:10.1016/j.hoc.2022.07.002

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers in the world; it is a silent disease in which symptoms do not present until advanced stages, thereby reducing the 5-year survival rate to 10%. The global burden of pancreatic cancer has do…

2022
Rationale and Design for the Diabetes RElated to Acute Pancreatitis and Its Mechanisms Study: A Prospective Cohort Study From the Type 1 Diabetes in Acute Pancreatitis Consortium.
Pancreas ·doi:10.1097/mpa.0000000000002079

AbstractAcute pancreatitis (AP) is a disease characterized by an acute inflammatory phase followed by a convalescent phase. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was historically felt to be a transient phenomenon related to acute inflammation; however, it…