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 […]
Abstract Number: 610
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Inflammatory polyarthritis and panniculitis are rare sequela of pancreatic disorders. This condition has been termed Polyarthritis, Panniculitis and Pancreatitis (PPP) and occurs in less than 5% of patients with underlying pancreatic disease. A 64 year old man presented with chronic erythematous, edematous, and tender subcutaneous nodules on all four extremities. He also had bilaterally […]