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Sustainable effect of ayurvedic treatment protocol on patients (n = 916). X-axis indicates the number of years of disease-free survival while the Y-axis indicates the number of patients. *Five deaths postrelapse of pancreatitis and one due to cardiac arrest
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Recurrent Acute/Chronic Pancreatitis (RA/CP) is a progressively debilitating disease with rising incidences in recent years. The limitations of conventional treatment, along with the psychological fear and financial burden associated with it, compel the patients to explore alternative options. In India, where traditional medicines are recognized as...
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... patients who completed 1-year treatment showed marked improvement in their frequency of attacks from 2781 to 189 and hospitalizations from 1530 to 36 [ Figure 1]. Of the 916 patients who completed 1-year treatment, 901 patients are leading healthy disease-free lives [ Figure 2]. The first patient, enrolled in 1997, has completed 26 years long disease-free survival and is healthy. ...
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... A balanced diet and controlled lifestyle, along with an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation (HMF), have been used to treat pancreatitis patients using processed sulfur, copper, and mercury to create the HMF. This formulation could achieve a 93% reduction in the frequency of AP incidents and a 97% reduction in emergency hospitalization [98]. In another report by [99] a 22-year-old nonalcoholic male patient experiencing AP diagnosed by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography was administered a formulation based on Pittaja gulma, and after a period of 15 days, his serum markers were regularized. ...
Pancreatitis is a prominent and severe type of inflammatory disorder that has grabbed a lot of scientific and clinical interest to prevent its onset. It should be detected early to avoid the development of serious complications, which occur due to long-term damage to the pancreas. The accurate measurement of biomarkers that are released from the pancreas during inflammation is essential for the detection and early treatment of patients with severe acute and chronic pancreatitis, but this is sub-optimally performed in clinically relevant practices, mainly due to the complexity of the procedure and the cost of the treatment. Clinically available tests for the early detection of pancreatitis are often time-consuming. The early detection of pancreatitis also relates to disorders of the exocrine pancreas, such as cystic fibrosis in the hereditary form and cystic fibrosis-like syndrome in the acquired form of pancreatitis, which are genetic disorders with symptoms that can be correlated with the overexpression of specific markers such as creatinine in biological fluids like urine. In this review, we studied how to develop a minimally invasive system using hydrogel-based biosensors, which are highly absorbent and biocompatible polymers that can respond to specific stimuli such as enzymes, pH, temperature, or the presence of biomarkers. These biosensors are helpful for real-time health monitoring and medical diagnostics since they translate biological reactions into quantifiable data. This paper also sheds light on the possible use of Ayurvedic formulations along with hydrogels as a treatment strategy. These analytical devices can be used to enhance the early detection of severe pancreatitis in real time.
