Serious acute pancreatitis in a smoking patient

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acute pancreatitis, livedo reticularis, hypertension, dyspnea, multiorganic failure, Intensive Cares Unit.

Abstract

The case report of a 51 years patient with personal pathological history of being a heavy smoker is described, who went to the emergency room of Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany Teaching Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba due to a dyspnea associated with high figures of blood pressure and livedo reticularis in the abdominal anterior face. Due to the clinical pattern and the results of the complementary tests, he was referred to the Intensive Cares Unit, where later on he was diagnosed serious acute pancreatitis, after an exploratory laparotomy where ischemic areas in the intestinal loops were found. The patient maintained a torpid clinical course and he died because of a multiple dysfunction of organs.

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2020-04-03

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Ferrer Castro JE, Márquez Vinent R, Rodríguez González Z. Serious acute pancreatitis in a smoking patient. MEDISAN [Internet]. 2020 Apr. 3 [cited 2025 Jun. 2];24(2):276-85. Available from: https://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/2951

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2020): marzo-abril

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Case Reports

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