title: Acute pancreatitis after kidney transplantation.
abstract: Acute pancreatitis is a rare but life-threatening complication in patients with transplanted kidney. The incidence of acute pancreatitis after kidney transplantation ranges from 2% to 7%, with mortality rate between 50 and 100%. We report a case of a female patient aged 46 years, developing an interstitial acute pancreatitis 8 years following a renal transplantation. The specific aethiological factor was not clearly established, although possibility of biliary pancreatitis with spontaneous stone elimination and/or medication-induced pancreatitis remains the strongest. Every patient after renal transplantation with an acute onset of abdominal pain should be promptly evaluated for presence of pancreatitis with a careful application of the most appropriate diagnostic procedure for each individual patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Dyalisis and Transplantation, Internal Medicine Hospital, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Trnovac bb, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Mithat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tabakovic
authors.forename: Nermin N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Salkic
authors.forename: Jasmina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bosnjic
authors.forename: Ervin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alibegovic