A Rare Disease in the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis: Acute Brucellosis

Berber İ., ERKURT M. A., YETKİN F., Unlu S., Yilmaz S., BENTLİ R., ...Daha Fazla

INTERNAL MEDICINE, cilt.53, sa.20, ss.2401-2404, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 53 Sayı: 20
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2169/internalmedicine.53.2510
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNAL MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2401-2404
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: acute pancreatitis, brucellosis, complication
  • İnönü Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Some infectious organisms may give rise to acute pancreatitis; brucellosis, however, extremely rarely leads to acute pancreatitis. A 40-year-old man was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, the etiology of which was determined to be acute brucellosis. The patient was discharged without complications approximately 15 days after the initiation of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and doxycycline treatment. Brucella infections may rarely be complicated by acute pancreatitis. Thus, brucellosis should be remembered in the etiology of acute pancreatitis in regions such as Turkey, where Brucella infections are endemic.