Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report

BACKGROUND: To report the association between thoracic duct ligation and acute pancreatitis. The association between sudden stop of lymphatic flow and pancreatitis has been established in experimental models. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old woman operated for thymoma presented a iatrogenic chylotho...

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Autores principales: Bédat, Benoît, Scarpa, Cosimo Riccardo, Sadowski, Samira Mercedes, Triponez, Frédéric, Karenovics, Wolfram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3
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author Bédat, Benoît
Scarpa, Cosimo Riccardo
Sadowski, Samira Mercedes
Triponez, Frédéric
Karenovics, Wolfram
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description BACKGROUND: To report the association between thoracic duct ligation and acute pancreatitis. The association between sudden stop of lymphatic flow and pancreatitis has been established in experimental models. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old woman operated for thymoma presented a iatrogenic chylothorax. After thoracic duct ligation, she presented an acute pancreatitis which resolved after conservative treatment. The chylothorax disappeared within 4 days of thoracic duct ligation. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of acute pancreatitis following thoracic duct ligation. The pancreas and digestive tract should be assessed in symptomatic patients after thoracic duct ligation. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-52600842017-01-26 Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report Bédat, Benoît Scarpa, Cosimo Riccardo Sadowski, Samira Mercedes Triponez, Frédéric Karenovics, Wolfram BMC Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: To report the association between thoracic duct ligation and acute pancreatitis. The association between sudden stop of lymphatic flow and pancreatitis has been established in experimental models. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old woman operated for thymoma presented a iatrogenic chylothorax. After thoracic duct ligation, she presented an acute pancreatitis which resolved after conservative treatment. The chylothorax disappeared within 4 days of thoracic duct ligation. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of acute pancreatitis following thoracic duct ligation. The pancreas and digestive tract should be assessed in symptomatic patients after thoracic duct ligation. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5260084/ /pubmed/28114912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Sadowski, Samira Mercedes
Triponez, Frédéric
Karenovics, Wolfram
Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title_full Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title_fullStr Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title_short Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report
title_sort acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3
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