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Ashcroft in icu with pancreatitis Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8122220.htm http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8122220.htm Posted on Sat, Mar. 06, 2004 John Ashcroft in ICU with pancreatitis By Shannon McCaffrey Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft spent Friday in the intensive care unit of a Washington hospital with a severe case of pancreatitis, a painful condition expected to sideline him for at least a week Believing he had a common stomach ailment, Ashcroft, 61, canceled an appearance in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday where he was scheduled to discuss guilty verdicts handed down in a terrorism case. Instead, he went home and his condition worsened. White House physician Dr. Daniel Parks visited Ashcroft and instructed him to go to the emergency room. After a complete exam, doctors at George Washington University Hospital diagnosed him with a severe case of gallstone pancreatitis. He was admitted to the intensive care unit at the downtown Washington hospital, where he's being monitored closely and treated with antibiotics, said Mark Corallo of the Justice Department. Pancreatitis, in which the pancreas is inflamed, can be caused by excessive consumption of alcohol or, in Ashcroft's case, a gallstone that becomes lodged in the bile duct blocking the passage of digestive enzymes into the small intestine. The condition can become dangerous when other organs, such as the kidneys or stomach, become infected or the production of insulin by the pancreas is blocked, said Dr. Anthony Kalloo, a specialist in pancreatic disease at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. Symptoms include sudden and intense abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and fever. ``It is very painful,'' Kalloo said.

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