Eruptive xanthomas and acute pancreatitis in a patient with hypertriglyceridemia.
Acute pancreatitis and eruptive xanthomas are the only recognised direct complications of severe hypertriglyceridaemia. We present the case of a 33-years old male patient in whom the onset of a type 2 diabetes, added to an unknown familial hyperlipidemia, precipitated a dramatic raise of serum triglyceride levels, that cause in turn an acute pancreatitis and the appearance of dermic eruptive xanthomas. TRANSLATION: This article is translated from Spanish, originally published in Archivos de Medicina. The original work is at doi:10.3823/001.
Martínez
Desirée Pérez
DP
Endocrinology Department, Hospital San Agustín, Avilés, Asturias, Spain. cmacb@arrakis.es.
Díaz
Juan Oscar Fernández
JO
Bobes
Carmen Maciá
CM