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pancreatic cholera (medicine)


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diarrhoea pancreatica
Diarrhoea characterised by severe, watery, secretory diarrhoea and hyperkalaemia; most patients have hypercalcaemia, many have hyperglycaemia; results from excessive secretion of VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide) by an islet cell tumour of the pancreas. Sometimes called WDHA syndrome.

See: Verner-Morrison syndrome, WDHA syndrome.

Synonym: pancreatic cholera, pancreatic diarrhoea.