Volume 24, Issue 105, September - October, 2020

Enteric pancreatitis: Rare association in young elderly

Sanyukta Hepat¹, Abhijit Wadekar¹, Parth Godhiwala¹, Sunil Kumar^2♦, Nitin Raisinghani³

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
²Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: sunilkumarmed@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

In tropical nations Enteric fever is a common infectious disease. Acute pancreatitis is one of the rare complications of enteric fever. In this case report is a 65 years old male patient who presented with fever and abdominal pain and diagnosed as acute pancreatitis with enteric fever. Acute pancreatitis is an unusual presentation of enteric fever and should be kept in mind when patients in endemic countries like India present with fever and abdominal pain. This will prevent delay in starting appropriate treatment.

Keywords: Enteric fever, typhoid fever, acute pancreatitis, abdominal pain

Medical Science, 2020, 24(105), 2944-2947

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