title: A rare disease in the differential diagnosis of acute pancreatitis: acute brucellosis.
abstract: Some infectious organisms may give rise to acute pancreatitis; brucellosis, however, extremely rarely leads to acute pancreatitis. A 40-year-old man was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, the etiology of which was determined to be acute brucellosis. The patient was discharged without complications approximately 15 days after the initiation of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and doxycycline treatment. Brucella infections may rarely be complicated by acute pancreatitis. Thus, brucellosis should be remembered in the etiology of acute pancreatitis in regions such as Turkey, where Brucella infections are endemic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilhami
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Berber
authors.forename: Mehmet Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Erkurt
authors.forename: Funda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yetkin
authors.forename: Serkan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Unlu
authors.forename: Sami
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Recep
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bentli
authors.forename: Sezai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bazna
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000383:Agriculture; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004318:Doxycycline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014421:Turkey
chemical_list: D015662:Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination; D004318:Doxycycline