Pancreatic Disorders & Therapy
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Zoltán Berger

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• Case Report
  Calcitonin-Induced Acute Pancreatitis: A Case-Report
  Author(s): Zoltán Berger, Claudio Cortes and Hernán CabelloZoltán Berger, Claudio Cortes and Hernán Cabello
  
  A 68 years old woman was admitted for abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis complicated with peripancreatic fluid collections. She has received steroid treatment during 12 months for pulmonary fibrosis, 60 mg/day Prednisone in the last months. Three weeks before her admission calcitonin treatment was introduced for osteoporotic vertebral fracture. The pancreatitis followed a benign clinical course; oral diet was reintroduced in two weeks. Some days later, calcitonin treatment was also reinitiated, followed by a recurrence of abdominal pain on the third day, accompanied by a second increase in blood pancreatic enzymes. On the fourth week of the acute exacerbation of pancreatitis the patient presented fever: bacterial infection of the demarcated fluid collections was confirmed by fine needle aspiration. The infected pseudocysts were drained percutaneously, guided by CT scan, with favorable.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7092.1000158

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