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Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome

Preeclampsia and the variant HELLP syndrome are systemic conditions associated with vascular changes resulting in vasoconstriction. Most commonly, patients present with elevated blood pressure and proteinuria, with a background of complaints such as headache, scotoma, and right upper quadrant pain....

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Autores principales: O'Brien, James M., Pursell, Nicole, Fumia, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/165435
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description Preeclampsia and the variant HELLP syndrome are systemic conditions associated with vascular changes resulting in vasoconstriction. Most commonly, patients present with elevated blood pressure and proteinuria, with a background of complaints such as headache, scotoma, and right upper quadrant pain. The systemic vascular changes experienced can target any organ system, oftentimes with more than one organ system being involved. We present the case of a patient admitted with HELLP syndrome who subsequently developed multisystem organ dysfunction, including placental abruption, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, acute renal failure, colitis, abdominal ascites, pancreatitis, and the development of pancreatic and colonic abscesses.
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spelling pubmed-44437562015-06-10 Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome O'Brien, James M. Pursell, Nicole Fumia, Fred Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Preeclampsia and the variant HELLP syndrome are systemic conditions associated with vascular changes resulting in vasoconstriction. Most commonly, patients present with elevated blood pressure and proteinuria, with a background of complaints such as headache, scotoma, and right upper quadrant pain. The systemic vascular changes experienced can target any organ system, oftentimes with more than one organ system being involved. We present the case of a patient admitted with HELLP syndrome who subsequently developed multisystem organ dysfunction, including placental abruption, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, acute renal failure, colitis, abdominal ascites, pancreatitis, and the development of pancreatic and colonic abscesses. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4443756/ /pubmed/26064725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/165435 Text en Copyright © 2015 James M. O'Brien 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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O'Brien, James M.
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Fumia, Fred
Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title_full Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title_fullStr Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title_short Pancreatic and Colonic Abscess Formation Secondary to HELLP Syndrome
title_sort pancreatic and colonic abscess formation secondary to hellp syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/165435
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