Abstract
Because of the variable clinical features of acute pancreatitis, it is difficult to
make a differential diagnosis in patients presenting with abdominal pain in emergency
departments. Acute pancreatitis due to severe hypertriglyceridemia during pregnancy
is rare but due to the increased risk of maternal and fetal mortality, diagnosis and
treatment options should be known and should be performed in the emergency department,
which is the first admission site.
In this case report, we present a 20-year-old woman with 19 weeks pregnant who presented
to the emergency department with abdominal pain and whose biochemistry parameters
were high enough to give lipemic stimulation was hospitalized in the emergency ıntensıve
care unit (EICU) in the emergency department and lipid apheresis treatment was planned
successfully. Lipid apheresis treatment in patients with resistant hypertriglyceridemia
in the emergency department should become an easy, safe and effective option with
the use of an emergency intensive care unit.
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: November 15, 2019
Accepted:
September 27,
2019
Received:
September 12,
2019
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