Huge water-balloons in the belly: multiple pancreatic pseudocysts in systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Resource Type
- Case Study
- Authors
- Li, Mucong; Zhou, Shuang; Chen, Yang; Zhao, Jiuliang; Wu, Chanyuan; Li, Mengtao
- Source
- Rheumatology. Sep2023, Vol. 62 Issue 9, pe286-e287. 2p.
- Subject
- *GLUCOCORTICOIDS
*PANCREATIC cysts
*PLASMA exchange (Therapeutics)
*AMYLASES
*SYSTEMIC lupus erythematosus
*COMPUTED tomography
*IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE agents
*SYMPTOMS
*DISEASE complications
- Language
- ISSN
- 1462-0324
The article describes the case of a 28-year-old woman with recurrent epigastric pain and abdominal distention for six months. Topics discussed include her symptoms that first occurred on the first day of admission due to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flare, finding on analysis of chylous ascites, and implication of the case on SLE-associated acute pancreatitis.