Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess

We present a rare case of acute pancreatitis in a 50-year-old man with amoebic liver abscess. He had a right lobe liver abscess along with markedly elevated serum lipase and amylase levels and edematous pancreas. Liver abscess was aspirated. The patient was managed conservatively with antibiotics an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ghosh, Jayant Kumar, Dixit, Vinod Kumar, Lamtha, Sangey Chopel, Goyal, Sundeep Kumar, Kaushik, Pankaj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23607003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/717393
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Sumario:We present a rare case of acute pancreatitis in a 50-year-old man with amoebic liver abscess. He had a right lobe liver abscess along with markedly elevated serum lipase and amylase levels and edematous pancreas. Liver abscess was aspirated. The patient was managed conservatively with antibiotics and improved without any complications. Acute pancreatitis associated with ALA is not reported in the literature till date.

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