Multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of severe acute pancreatitis associated with hypertriglyceridemia in pregnancy: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is an important cause of acute pancreatitis (AP) in pregnant women. Due to the variable clinical features of acute pancreatitis, it is difficult to make a differential diagnosis when abdominal pain occurs in late pregnancy. Severe HTG induced acute pancreatitis during pregnancy is rare, but may be a fatal threat to both mothers and fetuses during the peripartum period, and can increase maternal and fetal mortality. If emotional disorder combined, difficulty of treatment increased. So, multidisciplinary diagnosis combination of psychiatric treatment could improve the diagnosis rate and cure rate of acute pancreatitis during pregnancy.

Case description

We present the case of a 27-year-old Chinese woman in her first pregnancy, who was admit

SUBMITTER: Zheng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469118 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature