Keiko Shiratori

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a case of chronic pancreatitis in which an autoimmune mechanism is involved in the etiology and summarized the cases of pancreatitis suspected of being caused by an auto-antibody-positive mechanism in the Japanese and English literature.

TL;DR: The accumulation of many AIP cases shows that the concept of AIP has changed slightly to include extrapancreatic lesions and associated disorders, which suggests that the current diagnostic criteria are becoming inadequate.

TL;DR: Results indicate that GNAS mutations are common and specific for IPMN, and activation of G-protein signaling appears to play a pivotal role in IPMN.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that older age and advanced fibrosis were important risk factors for HCC, and that HCC was the major cause of mortality in NASH patients withadvanced fibrosis.

TL;DR: This work compared cirrhotic NASH with liver cirrhosis caused by chronic hepatitis C (LC‐C) to clarify its clinical features and define the risk factors for death.