Acute pancreatitis associated with acute viral hepatitis: case report and review of literature.

Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo

Discipline of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Paraná, Brasil.

Published: April 2010

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This case report, along with the review presented, describes a patient diagnosed with acute viral hepatitis, who developed a framework of intense abdominal pain and laboratorial alterations compatible with acute pancreatitis. The association of acute pancreatitis complicating fulminant and non-fulminant acute hepatitis virus (AHV) has been reported and several mechanisms have been proposed for this complication, but so far none is clearly involved. As acute hepatitis is a common disease, it is important to stimulate the development of other studies in order to determine local incidence and profile of patients presenting this association in our environment.

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