Acute Pancreatitis with Disturbed Consciousness Caused by Hyperparathyroidism

Although hyperparathyroidism has been reported to cause acute pancreatitis, little is known about the mechanism involved. This study describes the case of an 86-year-old woman with acute pancreatitis and consciousness disturbance caused by hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcemia, respectively. The con...

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Autores principales: Otsuka, Yasuo, Kamata, Ken, Minaga, Kosuke, Takenaka, Mamoru, Watanabe, Tomohiro, Kudo, Masatoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29877272
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0552-17
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author Otsuka, Yasuo
Kamata, Ken
Minaga, Kosuke
Takenaka, Mamoru
Watanabe, Tomohiro
Kudo, Masatoshi
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description Although hyperparathyroidism has been reported to cause acute pancreatitis, little is known about the mechanism involved. This study describes the case of an 86-year-old woman with acute pancreatitis and consciousness disturbance caused by hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcemia, respectively. The consciousness disturbance caused by severe hypercalcemia probably masked the typical symptoms associated with pancreatitis because she did not report abdominal pain during the clinical course.
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spelling pubmed-62627152018-11-30 Acute Pancreatitis with Disturbed Consciousness Caused by Hyperparathyroidism Otsuka, Yasuo Kamata, Ken Minaga, Kosuke Takenaka, Mamoru Watanabe, Tomohiro Kudo, Masatoshi Intern Med Case Report Although hyperparathyroidism has been reported to cause acute pancreatitis, little is known about the mechanism involved. This study describes the case of an 86-year-old woman with acute pancreatitis and consciousness disturbance caused by hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcemia, respectively. The consciousness disturbance caused by severe hypercalcemia probably masked the typical symptoms associated with pancreatitis because she did not report abdominal pain during the clinical course. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018-06-06 2018-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6262715/ /pubmed/29877272 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.0552-17 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Acute Pancreatitis with Disturbed Consciousness Caused by Hyperparathyroidism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6262715/
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