Fibrocalcific pancreatic diabetes in a young Ethiopian man.
An eighteen year old Ethiopian patient was admitted to Jimma teaching hospital, after presenting with classical hyperglycemic symptoms associated with abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, cachexia, and radiological appearance of extensive pancreatic calcification. These clinical and radiologic findings correlated with the well-described entity of Fibrocalcific pancreatic diabetes, which has never been reported from Ethiopia before.
Mamo
Yoseph
Y
Department of Internal Medicine, Jimma University, P.O. Box 378, Jimma, Ethiopia.
Esayas
Samuel
S
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000293:Adolescent; D002100:Cachexia / Q000209:etiology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D005002:Ethiopia; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000150:complications