Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess

Acute Pancreatitis Associated with Amoebic Liver Abscess

We present a rare case of acute pancreatitis in a 50-year-old man with amoebic liver abscess. He had a right lobe liver abscess along with markedly elevated serum lipase and amylase levels and edematous pancreas. Liver abscess was aspirated. The patient was managed conservatively with antibiotics an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine 2013-01, Vol.2013 (2013), p.1-2
Hauptverfasser: Kaushik, Pankaj, Goyal, Sundeep Kumar, Lamtha, Sangey Chopel, Dixit, Vinod Kumar, Ghosh, Jayant Kumar
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Zusammenfassung:We present a rare case of acute pancreatitis in a 50-year-old man with amoebic liver abscess. He had a right lobe liver abscess along with markedly elevated serum lipase and amylase levels and edematous pancreas. Liver abscess was aspirated. The patient was managed conservatively with antibiotics and improved without any complications. Acute pancreatitis associated with ALA is not reported in the literature till date.
ISSN:2090-6528
2090-6536
DOI:10.1155/2013/717393