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BACKGROUND
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an uncommon disease with a wide clinical course varying from mild and self-limiting to severe with eventual death. However, death caused by AP is rare. Most cases of AP reported in the English-language literature are based on clinical data; few are medico-legal
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a distinct subtype of pancreatitis, rare in the pediatric population. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood. A pancreatic focal mass is frequently the clinical presentation, which imposes the differential diagnosis with a pancreatic tumor. This distinction is
BACKGROUND
Serious sepsis and major blunt trauma have adverse effects on body composition, physiological function and psychological state. The effect of severe acute pancreatitis on these groups of variables has not yet been reported.
METHODS
We have studied the effect of predicted severe acute
OBJECTIVE
To explore the clinical characteristics and diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with the aim to raise awareness of AIP.
METHODS
Clinical data of 32 patients with AIP were retrospectively analyzed, including clinical manifestations, imaging features, laboratory examination,
Excessive milk intake may lead to diabetic ketoacidosis and acute pancreatitis. A 55-year-old milk salesperson with diabetes and dyslipidemia presented with a 5-day history of fatigue and thirst. The patient had drunk a large amount of milk for 2 months prior to the admission. Laboratory data showed
Pancreatitis, panniculitis and polyarthritis syndrome (PPP syndrome) is a rare and complex manifestation of pancreatitis that is currently reported in few cases. We present this case regarding a 77-year-old man who presented unusually with a 6-week history of bilateral lesions on his lower limbs.
A 22-year-old woman began to have the symptoms of anorexia, high fever, cough and general fatigue from June of 1997. She was admitted in our hospital on Aug. 8th, 1997 for the further detail examination because of pancytopenia and positive antinuclear antibody (ANA). Her laboratory findings and
Hemochromatosis is a disorder of iron overload whereby there is toxic deposition of iron in various tissues and organs of the body. It can either be hereditary or secondary to some other underlying cause. Patients with mutations in the HFE gene are often predisposed to developing this disorder. It
Patients with dengue virus infection have a different symptoms range from asymptomatic to sever form depending on primary and secondary immune status of host, infecting genotype and patient's age. The current study aimed to describe the clinical and laboratory profile of dengue fever outbreak and
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of an HIV-positive man who received sequential didanosine and pentamidine treatment and subsequently developed acute clinical pancreatitis.
METHODS
In June 1992 didanosine 200 mg po bid was initiated in a 30-year-old man with AIDS. After a 22-week course of didanosine, the
Recently, we found a serum acylcarnitine (ACR) deficiency in Japanese patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). To clarify whether this ACR abnormality is a characteristic of CFS or not, we also studied the levels of serum carnitine in Swedish subjects. Both serum ACR and free carnitine (FCR)
OBJECTIVE
Acute experimental pancreatitis (induced by cerulein) recently has been reported to cause marked diaphragmatic dysfunction, which may contribute to respiratory distress in this setting. In cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis, expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase is induced to
Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are commonly consumed in the United States with high prevalence of use in athlete populations and increased use by deployed service members. Many PEDs may contain anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), which are legally restricted and prohibited by many agencies due
A healthy, urban-dwelling man presented with lassitude, jaundice without increased liver enzymes or obstructive features on imaging, brief acute kidney injury, leucocytosis with near-normal C reactive protein and markedly increased serum amylase and lipase. Leptospirosis was not considered for 10
Rationale: Fibrates are widely used to control hypertriglyceridemia and mixed dyslipidemia alone or in combination with statins. These drugs have rare, but severe and potentially vital adverse reactions of rhabdomyolysis and secondary acute renal failure (ARF). The