Does acute alcoholic pancreatitis precede the chronic form or is the opposite true?
This study suggests that acute alcoholic pancreatitis develops in a pancreas already affected by chronic pancreatitis. The hypothesis that in alcoholics chronic pancreatitis derives from acute pancreatitis is not supported by the present data.
Higher BKV levels in plasma are associated with renal dysfunction. Kidney transplant recipients are at high risk compared with recipients of isolated heart or liver allografts, for development of BKV nephropathy.