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An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman
Gullo's syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6310245 |
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author | Ainahi, Abdelhakim Ziane, Abdellaziz Wakrim, Lahcen Elmdaghri, Naima Barakat, Abdelhamid |
author_facet | Ainahi, Abdelhakim Ziane, Abdellaziz Wakrim, Lahcen Elmdaghri, Naima Barakat, Abdelhamid |
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description | Gullo's syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis, elevated values of serum amylase and lipase were fortuitously observed (198 and 1461 U/L, resp.). Over five years of regular pancreas surveillance, all clinical, biological, and imaging investigations were normal. However, the pancreatic enzyme levels have shown considerable fluctuations including some episodic transient normalization. The description of this benign pancreatic hyperenzymemia case incidentally associated with endometriosis disease is a very rare clinical situation. More in-depth documentation of this phenomenon may help clinicians to avoid unnecessary diagnostic management approaches and reassure the concerned patients that this affection would not be so worrying. |
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spelling | pubmed-60358052018-07-22 An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman Ainahi, Abdelhakim Ziane, Abdellaziz Wakrim, Lahcen Elmdaghri, Naima Barakat, Abdelhamid Case Rep Med Case Report Gullo's syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis, elevated values of serum amylase and lipase were fortuitously observed (198 and 1461 U/L, resp.). Over five years of regular pancreas surveillance, all clinical, biological, and imaging investigations were normal. However, the pancreatic enzyme levels have shown considerable fluctuations including some episodic transient normalization. The description of this benign pancreatic hyperenzymemia case incidentally associated with endometriosis disease is a very rare clinical situation. More in-depth documentation of this phenomenon may help clinicians to avoid unnecessary diagnostic management approaches and reassure the concerned patients that this affection would not be so worrying. Hindawi 2018-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6035805/ /pubmed/30034474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6310245 Text en Copyright © 2018 Abdelhakim Ainahi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ainahi, Abdelhakim Ziane, Abdellaziz Wakrim, Lahcen Elmdaghri, Naima Barakat, Abdelhamid An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title | An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title_full | An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title_fullStr | An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title_full_unstemmed | An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title_short | An Unusual Case of Gullo's Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
title_sort | unusual case of gullo's syndrome concomitant with serious endometriosis disease in a postmenopausal woman |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6310245 |
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