Autoimmune pancreatitis

Álvaro Andrés Gómez; Carlos E. Sánchez; Juan Martín Gutiérrez; Daniel Gerardo Fernández-Ávila; Christina Mallarino; Adriana Beltrán; María Claudia Díaz

doi:10.1016/S0121-8123(14)70147-1

Autoimmune pancreatitis

Álvaro Andrés Gómez
, Carlos E. Sánchez
, Juan Martín Gutiérrez
, Daniel Gerardo Fernández-Ávila
, Christina Mallarino
, Adriana Beltrán
, María Claudia Díaz

Universidad Javeriana
Hospital Universitario Clínica San Rafael

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Abstract

We report the case of a 70-year-old male with chronic abdominal pain, who presented with increased intensity of the pain, and was initially diagnosed and treated for acute biliary pancreatitis. However, the symptoms persisted after hospital discharge, and he was subsequently studied with cholangio-MRI, abdominal CT scan, and ERCP, which revealed dilation of the biliary tract and a mass in the head of the pancreas. An excisional biopsy of the lesion showed chronic inflammation with severe sclerosing fibrosis and a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. A diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis was made, and the patient was initiated on azathioprine with good clinical response.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	46-50
Number of pages	5
Journal	Revista Colombiana de Reumatologia
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0121-8123(14)70147-1
State	Published - Mar 2014

Keywords

Abdominal mass
Abdominal pain
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Cholelithiasis

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