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Cureus
December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, USA.
Hemosuccus pancreaticus (HP) is a rare, life-threatening cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, often linked to chronic pancreatitis and pseudoaneurysm rupture into the pancreatic duct. However, its occurrence in acute necrotizing pancreatitis with decompensated cirrhosis is exceedingly rare and poses significant diagnostic and treatment challenges. We report a case of a 34-year-old male with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis who developed hemorrhagic shock from HP following acute necrotizing pancreatitis.
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December 2024
Department of Surgery, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
The development of an arterial pseudoaneurysm is an unusual complication of chronic pancreatitis. The most commonly involved artery is the splenic artery. This is a case report describing a case of a superior pancreaticoduodenal artery pseudoaneurysm in a patient with chronic pancreatitis who developed .
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December 2024
Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia, 760032.
Clin J Gastroenterol
October 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Hemosuccus pancreaticus (HP) is characterized by gastrointestinal bleeding from the papilla of Vater via the pancreatic duct. In this report, we describe a case of HP due to arterial perforation in a pancreatic pseudocyst and discuss the computed tomography (CT) findings and efficacy of stent graft placement. A 64-year-old man with a history of heavy alcohol use, situs inversus totalis, and total gastrectomy was hospitalized with hematochezia.
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September 2024
Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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