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Case Report
Acute pancreatitis secondary to acute undiagnosed lupus: A case report
1 MD, Emergency Medicine, NYC+HHC/Lincoln, The Bronx, NY, USA
2 MS-IV, St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
3 MD, Internal Medicine, NYC+HHC/Lincoln, The Bronx, NY, USA
4 MD, Internal Medicine, NYC+HHC/Lincoln, The Bronx, NY, USA; Director of Inpatient Diabetes Care and Stroke Management for the Division of Hospital Medicine
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MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lincoln Medical Center, 234 E 149th Street, The Bronx, NY 10451,
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Article ID: 101405Z01SA2023
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Azizi S, Jain A, Gutierrez JO, Kaner FB, Khanna R. Acute pancreatitis secondary to acute undiagnosed lupus: A case report. Int J Case Rep Images 2023;14(2):26–31.ABSTRACT
Introduction: Pancreatitis is the acute inflammation of the pancreas associated with mortality, commonly presenting to the emergency department with significant abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and in severe cases, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Case Report: We present a rare case of pancreatitis secondary to acute systemic lupus erythematosus in a young patient with no past medical history and undiagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The patient had no classic exposures or ingestions of common causes of pancreatitis, and underwent an extensive workup with prolonged hospitalization until the antibody investigations revealed acute SLE.
Conclusion: This case illustrates the importance of keeping autoimmunity as a potential cause of acute pancreatitis particularly in a patient with no other classic cause of pancreatitis. Despite SLE being described as a rare and uncommon cause of pancreatitis in patients with known SLE diagnosis, this case sheds significant light on pancreatitis being a first-time presentation in a patient with no past diagnosis of SLE. Awareness of this etiology may help prevent extended hospitalizations, decrease complications, and improve mortality in respective patients with undifferentiated acute pancreatitis.
Keywords: Autoimmune, Lupus, Pancreatitis, Rheumatology
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Author Contributions
Shayan Azizi - Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Aishvarya Jain - Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Jorge O Gutierrez - Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published
Fatih B Kaner - Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published
Rajan Khanna - Substantial contributions to conception and design, Interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Guarantor of SubmissionThe corresponding author is the guarantor of submission.
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Consent StatementWritten informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this article.
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Conflict of InterestAuthors declare no conflict of interest.
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