Acute pancreatitis and Cushing's disease.
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.
Hiramatsu
K
K
Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Moriuchi
J
J
Arimori
S
S
Ide
A
A
Usui
T
T
Tanaka
K
K
Sato
T
T
Osamura
Y
Y
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
D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone