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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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
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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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author Ghosh, Jayant Kumar
Dixit, Vinod Kumar
Lamtha, Sangey Chopel
Goyal, Sundeep Kumar
Kaushik, Pankaj
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description 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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spelling pubmed-36282182013-04-19 Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess Ghosh, Jayant Kumar Dixit, Vinod Kumar Lamtha, Sangey Chopel Goyal, Sundeep Kumar Kaushik, Pankaj Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3628218/ /pubmed/23607003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/717393 Text en Copyright © 2013 Jayant Kumar Ghosh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess
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title_full Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess
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title_short Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/717393
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