tropical pancreatitis
Findings
No curated finding names tropical pancreatitis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Tropical pancreatitis is a rare pancreatic disease of juvenile onset occurring mainly in tropical developing countries and characterized by chronic non-alcoholic pancreatitis manifesting with abdominal pain, steatorrhea and fibrocalculous pancreatopathy. It is also commonly associated with the development of pancreatic calculi and pancreatic cancer at a much higher frequency than seen in ordinary chronic pancreatitis.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0011986), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
11 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Chronic calcifying pancreatitisHPOHP:0005236
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Epigastric painHPOHP:0410019
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Pancreatic calcificationHPOHP:0005213
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal pancreatic duct morphologyHPOHP:0030992
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Insulin-dependent but ketosis-resistant diabetesHPOHP:0008205
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- NauseaHPOHP:0002018
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: tropical pancreatitis
- Also called
- TCPtropical calcific chronic pancreatitis