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Rare disease
‘A lipaemic mystery’: a patient with hypertriglyceridaemic pancreatitis and cerebral infarction
  1. Patricia King*,1,
  2. Philip Joseph Smith*,1,2,
  3. John Betteridge3,
  4. Mike Brown1
  1. 1Department of Medicine, University College London Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
  3. 3Department of Endocrinology, University College London Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Philip Joseph Smith, pjsmith{at}doctors.org.uk

Summary

Hypertriglyceridaemia (HTG) causes up to 10% of all cases of acute pancreatitis (AP). It is the third most common cause after gallstones and alcohol. Despite this frequency, there are no clear guidelines for its specific management, mainly due to the paucity of evidence. The authors present a case and discussion of hypertriglyceridaemic pancreatitis (HTGP) complicated by an acute cerebral infarct. The patient’s subsequent death secondary to cerebral infarction opens the discussion as to whether HTG should be more urgently treated.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.09.2011.4819

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    Footnotes

    • ↵* PK and PJS contributed equally to the work.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.