title: Alcoholic Pancreatitis Masquerading as Preeclampsia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Coexisting medical complications in pregnancy can present in a fashion similar to preeclampsia and can be challenging to differentiate.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a patient who, at 27 3/7 weeks of gestation, fulfilled diagnostic criteria for severe preeclampsia, including hypertension, proteinuria, headache, abnormal serum creatinine levels, thrombocytopenia, and liver function abnormalities, but who nevertheless did not have preeclampsia. Instead, she was diagnosed with alcoholic pancreatitis based on a history of heavy alcohol use and elevated amylase and lipase. Abnormal laboratory values resolved with supportive therapy, and she continued to term without subsequent recurrence of proteinuria or hypertension.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Alcoholic pancreatitis can be mistaken for preeclampsia.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York.
authors.forename: Tara A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: Scott C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Dexter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019512:Pancreatitis, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy