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A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure

Acute pancreatitis affects approximately 50,000-80,000 Americans each year. Eighty percent of those cases are related to alcohol use or biliary stones. It has traditionally been thought of as a self-limiting disease, in which the pancreas fully recovers with little or no intervention. The occurrence...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Ibrahim A, Grifith, Candace, Lipshutz, Sean, Weinstein, David, Hallur, Ravindra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34476139
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16766
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author Ahmed, Ibrahim A
Grifith, Candace
Lipshutz, Sean
Weinstein, David
Hallur, Ravindra
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description Acute pancreatitis affects approximately 50,000-80,000 Americans each year. Eighty percent of those cases are related to alcohol use or biliary stones. It has traditionally been thought of as a self-limiting disease, in which the pancreas fully recovers with little or no intervention. The occurrence of complications, particularly infectious ones, characterize the most severe forms of acute pancreatitis and is associated with high mortality. We present a case of acute pancreatitis with transformation into necrotizing and hemorrhagic pancreatitis complicated with splenic vein thrombosis (SVT), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute kidney injury (AKI), and later, fungemia.
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spelling pubmed-84034972021-09-01 A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure Ahmed, Ibrahim A Grifith, Candace Lipshutz, Sean Weinstein, David Hallur, Ravindra Cureus Internal Medicine Acute pancreatitis affects approximately 50,000-80,000 Americans each year. Eighty percent of those cases are related to alcohol use or biliary stones. It has traditionally been thought of as a self-limiting disease, in which the pancreas fully recovers with little or no intervention. The occurrence of complications, particularly infectious ones, characterize the most severe forms of acute pancreatitis and is associated with high mortality. We present a case of acute pancreatitis with transformation into necrotizing and hemorrhagic pancreatitis complicated with splenic vein thrombosis (SVT), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute kidney injury (AKI), and later, fungemia. Cureus 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8403497/ /pubmed/34476139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16766 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ahmed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Ahmed, Ibrahim A
Grifith, Candace
Lipshutz, Sean
Weinstein, David
Hallur, Ravindra
A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title_full A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title_short A Rare Case of Rapidly Transforming Pancreatitis With Life-Threatening Complications and Multi-Organ Failure
title_sort rare case of rapidly transforming pancreatitis with life-threatening complications and multi-organ failure
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34476139
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16766
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