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: 880
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
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 […]