This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (19)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Camilo G. Barcenas, MD; Miguel Gonzalez-Molina, MD; Alan R. Hull, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1978;138(8):1254-1256.

Abstract
Of 42 patients with malignant hypertension seen in five years in our institutions, seven (17%) had acute pancreatitis. All patients with pancreatitis were black, all had renal failure, and six received dialysis. No particular drug was received by all patients, gallstones were excluded in the majority, and alcoholism was not a factor. Clinical acute pancreatitis persisted for several weeks and five patients died, three of them with pancreatic pseudocysts.

Among 259 patients on long-term hemodialysis programs in the same time period, only two additional cases of acute pancreatitis were observed and related to chronic alcoholism.

Acute pancreatitis is a frequent complication of malignant hypertension, and when it happens it is severe and commonly fatal.

(Arch Intern Med 138:1254-1256, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas. Dr Gonzalez-Molina was a clinical fellow of the Renal Section at the time this study was done.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 22, 1977.

Reprint requests to St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Medical Center, 6720 Bertner St, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Barcenas).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Acute Pancreatitis in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease Without Transplantation
Rutsky et al.
Arch Intern Med 1986;146:1741-1745.
ABSTRACT