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Eur J Case Rep Intern Med
April 2020
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Casablanca, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco.
Unlabelled: Emphysematous pancreatitis is a rare and fatal complication of acute necrotizing pancreatitis. We report a radioclinical observation of a 61-year-old female patient who consulted for epigastric pain radiating to the back, associated with vomiting and elevated lipasaemia more than 3 times the normal value. The abdominal computerized tomography (CT) scan carried out on the fourth day of hospitalization, based on worsening of the clinical condition, showed pancreatic necrosis associated with the presence of air bubbles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe relation between increase of amylasaemia and increase of lipasaemia was studied during ketoacidosis in 31 insulin-dependent diabetics. The effects of metabolic disturbances on amylase production during the acute phase of ketoacidosis were also evaluated. The greatest increase of amylasaemia was observed after 24 hours in 17 cases (55%), with return to normal values after 3 to 7 days.
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