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The pancreas regulates the amount of glucose in the blood through the release of various hormones, with insulin being the most important in the process. The pancreas is said to be an organ with both exocrine and endocrine function.
Bruce Blaus. Own work, CC BY 3.0
Pancreatitis Inflammation of the pancreas, or pancreatitis, is a process generally associated with the presence of stones in the gallbladder. In fact, it is one of the complications of this disease and one of the reasons why it is recommended that the patient undergoes surgery to remove the gallbladder as soon as the gallstones are diagnosed. When one of the gallbladder stones is too large to pass through the bile duct, it blocks the flow of bile and pancreatic fluid. This begins the inflammatory process that leads to pancreatitis. www.scientificanimations.com, CC BY-SA 4.0
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