Pleuropulmonary complications of pancreatitis

Pleuropulmonary complications of pancreatitis.

a notable exception. A patient with this type of effusion, complicated by a spontaneous bronchopleural fistula and then by an empyema, is reported. The literature relating to pancreatic enzyme-rich pleural effusions (pathognomonic of pancreatitis) is reviewed. Of several possible mechanisms involved in pathogenesis, transdiaphragmatic lymphatic transfer of pancreatic enzymes, intrapleural ruptu...

The pleuropulmonary manifestations of pancreatitis.

Pleuropulmonary complications of thoracic vertebral osteomyelitis.

In the preantibiotic era, pyogenic thoracic vertebral osteomyelitis was often complicated by mediastinal abscess, empyema, or necrotising pneumonia which arose by contiguous invasion late in the disease and progressed to bacteraemia and death.' Since the advent of antibiotics, however, the disease more often presents insidiously and may simulate mediastinal tumour, or gastrointestinal, genitour...

Vascular complications of pancreatitis.

Most cases of pancreatitis are mild and selflimited. On the other hand, approximately one quarter of patients with pancreatitis may develop vascular complications. Vascular complications in pancreatitis are well recognized. Their exact incidence is not known. The most common complications are haemorrhage into a pseudocyst, erosions of the upper gastrointestinal arteries, thromboses of the porta...

Complications of Acute Pancreatitis

IntroductIon Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas, which has variable involvement of other regional tissues and/or remote organ systems. The disease can be classified as mild or severe depending on the extent of inflammation and organ involvement. Mild pancreatitis consists of interstitial (edematous) pancreatitis on imaging with minimal or no extrapancreatic orga...