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 [...]

Case Presentation: A 41-year-old male with a past medical history of chronic alcoholic pancreatitis and right-sided pancreatic pseudocyst presented with shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain that began three days prior. Chest X-ray showed near-complete opacification of the right hemithorax. A diagnostic thoracentesis revealed an exudative pleural effusion with a pleural amylase level of [...]

Case Presentation: A 61-year-old African American male with a history of alcohol use disorder and chronic pancreatitis presented to the hospital with shortness of breath and severe chest pain that worsened with inspiration. Two months prior to admission he was found to have a 17x12x12 cm pancreatic pseudocyst and subsequently underwent cystogastrostomy with stent placement [...]

Case Presentation: Pancreaticopleural fistula is a rare and serious complication of acute and chronic pancreatitis. This phenomenon develops due to a leak from an incompletely formed or disrupted pseudocyst, though it can also result from direct pancreatic duct leak. Although few case reports identify pancreaticopleural fistula causing recurrent pleural effusion and empyema, we describe the [...]

Case Presentation: Here, we present a rare case of large bilateral pleural effusions arising from a pancreaticopleural fistula (PPF) with a complicated course of trapped lung. Our patient is a 41 year old woman with a history of chronic pancreatitis who presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of dyspnea on exertion and [...]