... rare reports of acute pancreatitis (AP) in COVID-19 patients without an obvious etiology other than the underlying viral syndrome. We present a patient who was admitted with COVID-19 and developed AP and colonic pseudo-obstruction. A 66-year-old male with a past medical history of pulmonary embolism...

...Morihisa Hirota; Akinobu Koiwai; Atsuko Takasu; Keita Kawamura; Ryo Kin; Katsuya Endo; Takayuki Kogure; Takayoshi Meguro; Kennichi Satoh We encountered 4 patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) of various etiologies and coexisting acute cholangitis who underwent endoscopic biliary stenting (EBS...

...Takeshi Okamoto; Katsuyuki Fukuda Plastic biliary stents are commonly used for biliary drainage, while plastic pancreatic stents may be used prophylactically against acute pancreatitis in patients at high risk for post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis. Removal...

... by the formation of an “S-shaped loop” from the main pancreatic duct to the minor papilla. Ansa pancreatica has been implicated as a cause of recurrent acute pancreatitis. We review existing literature on pancreatitis secondary to the ansa deformity and present a case of recurrent acute pancreatitis in a patient...

...Kyawzaw Lin; Emmanuel Ofori; Aung Naing Lin; Sithu Lin; Thinzar Lin; Ameer Rasheed; Viswanath Vasudevan; Madhavi Reddy Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory disease presenting from mild localized inflammation to severe infected necrotic pancreatic tissue. In the literature, there are a few...

...Omar Nadhem; Omar Salh Acute pancreatitis is an important cause of acute upper abdominal pain. Because its clinical features are similar to a number of other acute illnesses, it is difficult to make a diagnosis only on the basis of symptoms and signs. The diagnosis of acute pancreatitis is based...

....: Hernia 2005;9: 284–287]. However, BH is almost asymptomatic in adults and discovered only incidentally [Wilkins et al.: Clin Imaging 1994;18: 224–229]. Complicated BH in adults might present with visceral incarceration and lethal complications. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding and acute pancreatitis...

... pancreatitis. Lancet 2008;371: 143–152. 2. Steer ML: Pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis. Digestion 1997;58(suppl 1):46–49. 3. Steer M: Etiology and pathophysiology of acute pancreatitis; in Go VLW, DiMagno EP, Gardner JD, Lebenthasl E, Reber HA, Scheele GA (eds): The Pancreas: Biology, Pathobiology...

... case caused by orlistat use caught in the early stages of acute pancreatitis through imaging; in addition, the case had significantly elevated serum amylase levels. A 54-year-old male who had a history of orlistat treatment started 7 days before was admitted to the emergency department with complaints...

... be ignored or missed, especially in the early stages. We present the case of a 49-year-old Caucasian male with no past medical history presenting to an outside facility with sudden epigastric pain that was eventually diagnosed as acute pancreatitis. On transfer to our facility, he was eventually found...

... as a combination of acute pancreatitis and concomitant Bouveret syndrome. A 61-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency department complaining of mid-epigastric and right upper quadrant abdominal pain radiating band-like in the thoracic region of the back as well as repeated episodes of vomiting over...

...Ghulam Mujtaba; Joseph Josmi; Mukul Arya; Sury Anand Crohn’s disease (CD) is an idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease which can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract. It frequently involves the ileum, colon and the anorectum. Although rare, acute pancreatitis as a complication of CD...

...Ser Yee Lee; Kheng Hong Ng; Mathew George Sebastian Acute pancreatitis is a single-organ disorder that has multi-organ sequelae. As a result, it can have varied presentations. Acute pancreatitis presenting as acute limb ischemia is rare. We present a patient with acute pancreatitis presenting...

... pancreatitis after administration of several drugs in a patient with intestinal inflammatory bowel disease that needed to be treated with subsequent antiinflammatory agents. Genetic mutation in the CFTR gene was found in the patient that led us to postulate that CFTR was a trigger for drug-induced acute...

...Kenji Ando; Soo Ryang Kim; Susumu Imoto; Taisuke Nakajima; Keiji Mita; Katsumi Fukuda; Miyuki Taniguchi; Noriko Sasase; Akira Muramatsu; Toshiyuki Matsuoka; Masatoshi Kudo; Yoshitake Hayashi Acute pancreatitis, an uncommon side effect of pegylated interferon α (PEG-IFN α) and ribavirin (RBV...

...Anthony A. Aghenta; Hack J. Kim Colonic complications of severe acute pancreatitis occur rarely. Although there have been several theories on how pancreatic pseudocysts rupture into the colon, the exact pathogenesis remains unknown. We report an unusual case of pseudocysts complicating severe acute...

...AbdulRahman Elsheikh Mohammed; Ali Benmousa We present a case of acute pancreatitis that happened as a complication of intragastric balloon insertion used for weight reduction in a young obese lady. Although many complications can happen with this type of procedure, this presentation is very rare...