title: Case report: acute pancreatitis caused by postcholecystectomic hemobilia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hemobilia is a rare cause of upper GI bleeding and the reasons for the majority of the cases are iatrogenic. It is also one of the rarest vascular complication following laparoscopic cholecystectomy but acute pancreatitis due to postcholecystectomic hemobilia as a late complication of cholecystectomy is not yet described.
  
  
  METHODS
  We presented the case of a 32-year-old female, admitted to our emergency surgery clinic with hematemesis, jaundice and abdominal pain who had a history of laparoscopic cholecystectomy 4 months ago. Patient was diagnosed as acute pancreatitis and obstructive jaundice caused by postcholecystectomic hemobilia. Afterwards she is successfully treated by ERCP, angiographic identification and embolization of right hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We presented that postcholecystectomic hemobilia may cause acute pancreatitis and acute pancreatitis caused by postcholecystectomic hemobilia should also be included to the rare complications which may occur following cholecystectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Bakirkoy Dr Sadi Konuk Train And Research Hospital, Tevfik Saglam Road, Istanbul, Turkey. halilalis@gmail.com
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alis
authors.forename: Mehmet A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
authors.forename: Osman Z
authors.initials: OZ
authors.lastname: Oner
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dolay
authors.forename: Ahmet N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Turhan
authors.forename: Adem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uçar
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Inci
authors.forename: Ersan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aygun
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006431:Hemobilia / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome