
The gland plays a dual role — providing exocrine function (secreting digestive pancreatic juice which it pours out through the pancreatic duct into the small gut) to aid digestion and secreting insulin and glucagon (hormones which regulate glucose metabolism) into the bloodstream.
While it makes its presence subtly felt in the impoverished diabetic, it really announces itself with acute pancreatitis, where the agony-stricken patient needs to be necessarily hospitalised and given meticulous treatment in most cases. While there are many postulates to the cause, acute pancreatitis is usually viral if not unknown in aetiology. Gallstones or infected sludge blocking the pancreatic duct, binge drinking alcohol or even acute gastritis are known to be the other causes.
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