title: Acute pancreatitis and Cushing's disease.
abstract: A 64-year-old woman with Cushing's disease died of acute necrotizing pancreatitis. This is the second case of this rare condition, in which acute necrotizing pancreatitis followed an ACTH-dependent hypercortisolism. The possibility that the tricyclic antidepressant drug, amitriptyline hydrochloride, induced the acute pancreatitis could not be ruled out; nevertheless, the present case may serve to add ACTH-dependent hypercortisolism to the possible causes of acute necrotizing pancreatitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moriuchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arimori
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Usui
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Osamura
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000378:metabolism; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone