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Tobias Schlosser¹, Daniel Fischer^1,2, Sandra Büttner¹

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany.

|February 25, 2022

Abstract

Background:

Pathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is still not entirely understood with many patients probably having more than 1 underlying etiology. Besides toxic-metabolic factors, genetics contribute to disease development. Mutations in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) are shown to increase risk for CP. Activity of CFTR can easily be accessed in vivo by measurement of nasal potential difference (PD).

Methods:

We compared in this monocentric study 17 CP patients from the outpatient unit of our university hospital with 30 healthy controls regarding nasal PDs by using a superfusion protocol. Additionally, demographic and lifestyle data of all persons were recorded.

Results:

Seventeen patients (12% female, median age 48 years) with CP and 30 healthy volunteers (47% female, 25 years) were included in the study. Patients with CP had a significant higher proportion of CFTR dysfunction (P = .04). Furthermore, demographics differed between the 2 groups with CP patients being older (P < .001). There were differences in daily alcohol consumption (P = .001) and smoking habits (smokers vs nonsmokers: P = .01, pack years: P = .002).

Conclusions:

PD measurement is an easily accessible way to show CFTR dysfunction as an etiological factor of CP. Cigarette smoking might impair CFTR function and therefore be 1 preventable cause of CP evolution.

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