RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acute pancreatitis with pseudocyst formation in a patient with polyarteritis nodosa.
JF The Journal of Rheumatology
JO J Rheumatol
FD The Journal of Rheumatology
SP 386
OP 388
VO 32
IS 2
A1 Ernest Suresh
A1 Wendy Beadles
A1 Philip Welsby
A1 Raashid Luqmani
YR 2005
UL http://www.jrheum.org/content/32/2/386.abstract
AB Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a term that includes patients with necrotizing inflammation of medium sized arteries, and excludes those with microscopic vessel involvement. Its manifestations are protean and include constitutional symptoms such as fever, malaise, weight loss, myalgia, peripheral neuropathy, rash, and gut and renal involvement. Although gastrointestinal manifestations have been noted in up to a third of patients with PAN, clinical presentation with pancreatic involvement has been reported only rarely. We describe a patient with PAN who developed acute pancreatitis with pseudocyst formation as well as infarcts in the spleen and liver.