Meeting
Abstract Number: 338
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old man with a medical history of recurrent acute on chronic pancreatitis due to alcohol use disorder presented with a 3-day history of right-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. Chest X-ray revealed a new large right-sided pleural effusion. Analysis of the aspirated serosanguinous exudative pleural fluid yielded a total amylase of 24,600 […]