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hours duration, symptoms that had developed shortly after dinner the previous
night. She has no history of alcohol use, takes no medications, and has no
family history of pancreatitis. On physical examination, she has a heart rate of
110 beats per minute and moderate epigastric abdominal tenderness without
peritoneal signs. The white-cell count is 16,500 per cubic millimeter, and the
hematocrit is 49 percent. The serum amylase level is 1450 IU per liter, the
serum lipase level is 3200 IU per liter, the serum alanine aminotransferase
level is 280 IU per liter, and the serum lactate dehydrogenase level is 860 IU
per liter. Calcium, albumin, triglyceride, and electrolyte values are normal. How
should the patient be further evaluated and treated?
Una mujer de 56 aos de edad, se presenta con dolor epigstrico severo y
vmitos de 14 horas de duracin, los sntomas que se haban desarrollado
poco despus de la cena la noche anterior. Ella no tiene antecedentes de
consumo de alcohol, no toma medicamentos, y no tiene antecedentes
familiares de pancreatitis.
En el examen fsico, que tiene una frecuencia cardaca de 110 latidos por
minuto y dolor abdominal epigstrico moderada sin signos peritoneales. La
clula blanco count es 16.500 por milmetro cbico, y el hematocrito es de 49
por ciento. El suero nivel de amilasa es 1.450 UI por litro, el nivel de lipasa
srica es 3.200 UI por litro, el suero nivel de alanina aminotransferasa es de
280 UI por litro, y el lactato deshidrogenasa srica nivel es de 860 UI por litro.
Los valores de calcio, albmina, triglicridos, y electrolitos son normal. Cmo
se debe evaluar exhaustivamente al paciente y se trata?
The Clinical Problem
Acute pancreatitis accounts for more than 220,000 hospital admissions in the
United States each year.1 The disease occurs at a similar frequency among
various age groups, but the cause of the condition and the likelihood of death
vary according to age, sex, race, body-mass index (the weight in kilograms
divided by the square of the height in meters), and other factors. The most
important risk factors for pancreatitis in adults are gallstones and excessive
alcohol use, although clinically detected pancreatitis never develops in most
persons with these risk factors.2,3 The incidence of gallstone pancreatitis is
increased among white women over the age of 60 years4,5 and is highest
among patients with small gallstones (less than 5 mm in diameter) or
microlithiasis.3,5 Excessive alcohol use as a cause of pancreatitis is more
common among men than women6; the association between alcohol
consumption and acute pancreatitis is complex but appears to be dosedependent.
Other
causes
include
metabolic
aberrations
(e.g.,
hypertriglyceridemia), duct obstruction (e.g., related to a tumor or pancreas
divisum), medications (e.g., azathioprine, thiazides, and estrogens), and
trauma. In children, the distribution of causes differs from that in adults, with
systemic diseases and trauma particularly common.7 About 20 percent of
cases in adults remain idiopathic, although this classification is expected to