Reliability of R. Voll’s method in the diagnosis of pancreatic inflammation in patients chronic pancreatitis. Pathophysiological aspect

AUTHORS : Kobylyanskaya R.N. | Kobylyansky V.Ya. | Horny Yu.E.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Research Institute of Informotherapy, Chernivtsi; Medical center “Infatep-Plus”, Kolomyia; Central Research Laboratory of Bukovyna State Medical Academy, Chernivtsi; Ukraine

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Educational

Chronic pancreatitis is a long-term inflammatory-degenerative pathological process of the pancreas. The disease is characterized by the damaging effect of pancreatic enzymes (lipase, amylase, trypsin, etc.) on the parenchyma and stroma of the gland, which leads to the phenomena of atrophy, the development of fibrosis, the formation of pseudocysts, calcifications. Such changes are manifested by violations of the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas [2, 5, 11].

It is possible to diagnose this pathology in a non-invasive way using electropuncture according to R. Voll. The method allows, taking into account the information and functional connections of acupuncture points with internal organs, by determining the electrical parameters of the measurement points (TI), to find out the functional state of organs and pathological changes in them [6, 9].