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Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports | Volume-5 | Issue-12
Acute Pancreatitis Secondary to Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Literature Review
M.A Lkousse, A. Elfarouki, S. Elyazel, S. Oubaha, Z. Semlani, K. Krati
Published: Dec. 30, 2017 | 240 185
DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2017.v05i12.015
Pages: 861-863
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Abstract
Acute pancreatitis may have a great variety of etiologies, but the two main causes, responsible of 80% of acute pancreatitis, are alcohol and biliary lithiasis. The other causes more rare, are drugs, genetic, malformative, cells tumor, medication and metabolic (hyperlipidemia, hypercalcaemia) hypercalcaemia secondary to primary hyperparathyroidism (P-HPT), is a rare cause of acute pancreatitis. We report à case of a patient whose initial presentation of the primary hyperparathyroidism was an acute pancreatitis.