Severe Acute Pancreatitis as an Index Clinical Manifestation of Parathyroid Adenoma. 2018

Tagore Sunkara, and Megan E Caughey, and Prashanth Rawla, and Krishna Sowjanya Yarlagadda, and Vinaya Gaduputi
Internal Medicine/gastroenterology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital. 121 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, Ny 11201.

Hypercalcemia due to primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism is a rare and obscure cause of acute pancreatitis. Although a rare occurrence to begin with, hyperparathyroidism commonly manifests with symptoms of hypercalcemia. Thus, it would reason that a patient might develop pancreatitis by way of hypercalcemia due to primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism. We present a case of an 88-year-old female with acute pancreatitis and only after an extensive work-up, was it determined that her severe acute pancreatitis resulted from primary hyperparathyroidism caused by a left parathyroid adenoma.

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