Acute pancreatitis associated with peroral double-balloon enteroscopy: a case report.
A 58-year-old Japanese man had tarry stool and severe anemia. Neither upper nor lower gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy showed any localized lesions. Thus, the source of his GI bleeding was suspected to be in the small intestine, and he underwent peroral double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) using EN-450T5 (Fujinon-Toshiba ES System Co., Tokyo, Japan). There were no lesions considered to be the source of GI bleeding. After the procedure, the patient began to experience abdominal pain. Laboratory tests revealed hyperamylasemia and abdominal computed tomography revealed an inflammation of the pancreas and the peripancreas. He was thus diagnosed to have acute pancreatitis. Conservative treatments resulted in both clinical and laboratory amelioration. He had no history of alcohol ingestion, gallstone disease or pancreatitis. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography demonstrated no structural alterations and no stones in the pancreatobiliary ductal system. As his abdominal pain started after the procedure, his acute pancreatitis was thus thought to have been related to the peroral DBE. This is the first reported case of acute pancreatitis probably associated with peroral DBE.
Honda
Kuniomi
K
Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Mizutani
Takahiro
T
Nakamura
Kazuhiko
K
Higuchi
Naomi
N
Kanayama
Kenji
K
Sumida
Yorinobu
Y
Yoshinaga
Shigetaka
S
Itaba
Soichi
S
Akiho
Hirotada
H
Kawabe
Ken
K
Arita
Yoshiyuki
Y
Ito
Tetsuhide
T
D000208:Acute Disease; D020776:Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000473:pathology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed