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 65-year-old man with a past medical history of gout and chronic pancreatitis complicated by pseudocyst presented with bilateral lower leg swelling, erythema, and pain for few weeks. The rash was also associated with bilateral lower extremity nodules that would spontaneously open and discharge white material. He was seen and treated in the [...]

Case Presentation: A thirty-three year old woman with a history of alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction presented with dyspnea and a non-productive cough. She was admitted to the intensive care unit for acute hypoxic respiratory failure. On arrival, she was febrile and hypoxic, saturating 80% on room air. Labs were notable for [...]

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male with a history of alcohol use disorder, recurrent and chronic pancreatitis and a recently identified 2.7cm pancreatic head pseudocyst on a prior admission, presented with abdominal pain and melena. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis with contrast demonstrated extravasation of contrast into the duodenal lumen. A CT GI bleed [...]

Case Presentation: This is a 35-year old Indian female, living in the United States for the past several years, presented with chronic mid-epigastric and left upper quadrant pain radiating to the back, nausea, and bilious vomiting. She complained of oily loose stools for the past 2 months. Her medical history is notable for insulin-dependent diabetes [...]