Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2014
A 64-year-old male patient has a 35-year history of chronic pancreatitis. In the last 5 years, he claims to observe the pain abatement, bloating, frequent bowel movements up to 3-4 times a day, grayish, glossy stool with undigested food rests, the progressive loss of body weight. Change of symptoms in the patient is due to overlay of:
Answer options
- Endocrine pancreatic insufficiency
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Lactase deficiency syndrome
- Chronic enterocolitis
- Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
Correct answer
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
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