Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis

BACKGROUND: A 37 year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of six hour diffuse abdominal pain accompanied by persistent vomiting. CASE REPORT: The patient had a heavy meal a few hours before. There were no signs of peritonitis. Routine laboratory examinations revealed leukocytos...

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Autores principales: Michalakis, Konstantinos, Basiakou, Eleni, Xanthos, Theodoros, Ziakas, Panagiotis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-198
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author Michalakis, Konstantinos
Basiakou, Eleni
Xanthos, Theodoros
Ziakas, Panagiotis
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Basiakou, Eleni
Xanthos, Theodoros
Ziakas, Panagiotis
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description BACKGROUND: A 37 year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of six hour diffuse abdominal pain accompanied by persistent vomiting. CASE REPORT: The patient had a heavy meal a few hours before. There were no signs of peritonitis. Routine laboratory examinations revealed leukocytosis, hyperglycemia and hyperamylasemia (serum amylase: 380 mg/dl, urinary amylase: 1150 mg/dl). CONCLUSION: The lipid profile revealed an impressive elevation of triglycerides (4800 mg/dl) and cholesterol (1009 mg/dl) levels. The serum was extremely lipemic. The abdomen computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis of pancreatitis.
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spelling pubmed-27831502009-11-26 Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis Michalakis, Konstantinos Basiakou, Eleni Xanthos, Theodoros Ziakas, Panagiotis Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: A 37 year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of six hour diffuse abdominal pain accompanied by persistent vomiting. CASE REPORT: The patient had a heavy meal a few hours before. There were no signs of peritonitis. Routine laboratory examinations revealed leukocytosis, hyperglycemia and hyperamylasemia (serum amylase: 380 mg/dl, urinary amylase: 1150 mg/dl). CONCLUSION: The lipid profile revealed an impressive elevation of triglycerides (4800 mg/dl) and cholesterol (1009 mg/dl) levels. The serum was extremely lipemic. The abdomen computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis of pancreatitis. BioMed Central 2009-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2783150/ /pubmed/19946445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-198 Text en Copyright ©2009 Michalakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Michalakis, Konstantinos
Basiakou, Eleni
Xanthos, Theodoros
Ziakas, Panagiotis
Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
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title_full Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
title_fullStr Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
title_full_unstemmed Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
title_short Lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
title_sort lipemic serum in hyperlipidemic pancreatitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783150/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-198
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