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Acute pancreatitis after kidney transplantation
Mithat Tabakovic1, Nermin N Salkic, Jasmina Bosnjic
1Department of Nephrology, Dyalisis and Transplantation, Internal Medicine Hospital, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Trnovac bb, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina.
Abstract:
Acute pancreatitis is a rare but life-threatening complication in patients with transplanted kidney. The incidence of acute pancreatitis after kidney transplantation ranges from 2% to 7%, with mortality rate between 50 and 100%. We report a case of a female patient aged 46 years, developing an interstitial acute pancreatitis 8 years following a renal transplantation. The specific aethiological factor was not clearly established, although possibility of biliary pancreatitis with spontaneous stone elimination and/or medication-induced pancreatitis remains the strongest. Every patient after renal transplantation with an acute onset of abdominal pain should be promptly evaluated for presence of pancreatitis with a careful application of the most appropriate diagnostic procedure for each individual patient.
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