Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Reyes Coot

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  Pancreatitis Secondary to Bile Duct Cyst in a 36-year-old Pregnant Woman: Case Report
  Author(s): Luis Angel Medina Andrade, Reyes Coot, Carla Hernandez, Stephanie Serrano Collazos, Angeles Martinez, Laura Medina Andrade, Alejandro Medina Andrade, Grecia Ortiz, Oscar Montes, Staphanny Woolf and Israel López Luis Angel Medina Andrade, Reyes Coot, Carla Hernandez, Stephanie Serrano Collazos, Angeles Martinez, Laura Medina Andrade, Alejandro Medina Andrade, Grecia Ortiz, Oscar Montes, Staphanny Woolf and Israel López
  
  Pancreatitis in pregnancy has a prevalence of 1.5/1500-4500 cases, constituting one of the most common acute abdomen wedges, with biliary origin in 70% of cases, triglycerides in 20% and other causes in the remaining 10%, including choledochal cyst (CC) as a rare cause with three previous reports in literature, which may have a fatal outcome with fetal loss in some cases. We report the case of a 25-year-old patient with 30.4 weeks of gestation (WOG) that arrived to emergency room with right upper quadrant and epigastric pain for the last 8 hours, associated with nausea and vomiting. No pathological background referred. At physical examination with jaundice, gravidic abdomen for 30.4 WOG pregnant, fetal movements presents, Murphy (+) and epigastric pain on deep palpation. Laboratories report total bilirubin (TB) 3.9 mg/dl and direct bilirubin (DB) 3.69 mg/dl Alkaline phosphatase (AP) 2.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000272

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