Eruptive xanthomas and acute pancreatitis in a patient with hypertriglyceridemia


Acute pancreatitis and eruptive xanthomas are the only recognised direct complications of severe hypertriglyceridaemia. We present the case of a 33-years old male patient in whom the onset of a type 2 diabetes, added to an unknown familial hyperlipidemia, precipitated a dramatic raise of serum triglyceride levels, that cause in turn an acute pancreatitis and the appearance of dermic eruptive xanthomasThis article is translated from Spanish, originally published in Archivos de Medicina.

The original work is at doi:10.3823/001

Author: Desiree Perez-Martinez, Juan OSCAR Fernandez-Diaz and Carmen Macia-Bobes
Credits/Source: International Archives of Medicine 2008, 1:6



Published on: 2008-05-12

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