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MeSH Heading: Pancreatitis, Alcoholic
Tree Number(s): C06.689.750.660; C25.775.100.087.730
Unique ID: D019512
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019512
Annotation: usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE
Scope Note: Acute or chronic INFLAMMATION of the PANCREAS due to excessive ALCOHOL DRINKING. Alcoholic pancreatitis usually presents as an acute episode but it is a chronic progressive disease in alcoholics.
Entry Term(s): Alcoholic Pancreatitis
Previous Indexing: Alcoholism (1966-1996); Pancreatitis (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/19
Revision Date: 2013/07/08

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Pancreatitis, Alcoholic MeSH Descriptor Data 2025