Acute necrotizing pancreatitis following coronary artery angiography: A case report

Hajimaghsoudi, Majid; Zeinali, Faezeh; Mansouri, Mehrdad; Dehghani, Mohammad Hosein

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis following coronary artery angiography: A case report

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Majid Hajimaghsoudi ¹

Faezeh Zeinali ²

Mehrdad Mansouri ³

Mohammad Hosein Dehghani ⁴

¹ Trauma Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciensesSciences, Yazd, Iran

² Department of Emergency , Shahid Rahnemoon Hospital, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

³ Shahid Sadoughi Hospital, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

⁴ Shahid Rahnemoon Hospital, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute pancreatitis has different etiologies from biliary stone to metabolic disturbances. Coronary angiography is one of the newly understood etiologies. CASE REPORT: This paper is about a women suffering from acute pancreatitis after coronary angiography. CONCLUSION: Embolization of cholesterol crystals due to vessel wall trauma during coronary angiography as well as contrast medium are responsible for such side effect.

Keywords

Pancreatic Diseases

Coronary Angiography

Contrast Media

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