Steroid induced hypertriglyceridemia in pregnant waman with immune thrombocytopenia - case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertriglyceridemia is a medical condition defined as fasting triglyceride level more than 150 mg/dl. It could be due to either familial or acquired cause as in obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus type 2, alcohol consumption, decrease exercise or drug affects. Drugs such as corticosteroids rarely induced hypertriglyceridemia, for that we are reporting this case.

Case presentation

We are reporting a 35 years old pregnant lady diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia and started on prednisolone 1mg/kg per oral once a day. Two months later, while on 20 mg of prednisolone, she presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting for 15 days. Physical examination showed dry mucosa, new xanthelasma over both eyelids and epigastric te

SUBMITTER: Al-Ansari RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9142547 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature