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Acute Pediatric Pancreatitis Presenting with Splenic Vein Thrombosis

Acute pancreatitis among the pediatric population can result from genetic disorders, anatomic anomalies, gallstones, trauma, and medications; trauma and idiopathic causes being the most common. Although chronic pancreatitis presents with increased severe long-term complications, acute pancreatitis p...

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Autores principales: Villanueva, Julia, Chavez, Martha, Christian, La Nyka A, Pierre, Louisdon, Sedrak, Aziza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9506509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36168648
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29462
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author Villanueva, Julia
Chavez, Martha
Christian, La Nyka A
Pierre, Louisdon
Sedrak, Aziza
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description Acute pancreatitis among the pediatric population can result from genetic disorders, anatomic anomalies, gallstones, trauma, and medications; trauma and idiopathic causes being the most common. Although chronic pancreatitis presents with increased severe long-term complications, acute pancreatitis presents with its share of complications such as fistulas, pseudocysts, and venous abnormalities. With an increase in hospitalization rates of acute pancreatitis among the pediatric population, the importance of understanding rare complications and how to further recognize these complications can aid in the diagnosis, medical management, and intervention necessary to optimize a patient's outcome. Our patient presented with a rare complication of splenic vein thrombosis (SVT), which is a complication that can also be observed in adults with acute pancreatitis. SVTs are uncommon in both the adult and pediatric populations, and they have received little attention or research in the pediatric population. We report a case that will highlight a rare case of SVT presenting in a pediatric patient with acute necrotizing gallstone pancreatitis.
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spelling pubmed-95065092022-09-26 Acute Pediatric Pancreatitis Presenting with Splenic Vein Thrombosis Villanueva, Julia Chavez, Martha Christian, La Nyka A Pierre, Louisdon Sedrak, Aziza Cureus Pediatrics Acute pancreatitis among the pediatric population can result from genetic disorders, anatomic anomalies, gallstones, trauma, and medications; trauma and idiopathic causes being the most common. Although chronic pancreatitis presents with increased severe long-term complications, acute pancreatitis presents with its share of complications such as fistulas, pseudocysts, and venous abnormalities. With an increase in hospitalization rates of acute pancreatitis among the pediatric population, the importance of understanding rare complications and how to further recognize these complications can aid in the diagnosis, medical management, and intervention necessary to optimize a patient's outcome. Our patient presented with a rare complication of splenic vein thrombosis (SVT), which is a complication that can also be observed in adults with acute pancreatitis. SVTs are uncommon in both the adult and pediatric populations, and they have received little attention or research in the pediatric population. We report a case that will highlight a rare case of SVT presenting in a pediatric patient with acute necrotizing gallstone pancreatitis. Cureus 2022-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9506509/ /pubmed/36168648 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29462 Text en Copyright © 2022, Villanueva 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.
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title Acute Pediatric Pancreatitis Presenting with Splenic Vein Thrombosis
title_full Acute Pediatric Pancreatitis Presenting with Splenic Vein Thrombosis
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title_short Acute Pediatric Pancreatitis Presenting with Splenic Vein Thrombosis
title_sort acute pediatric pancreatitis presenting with splenic vein thrombosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9506509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36168648
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29462
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