This article is translated from Spanish, originally published in Archivos de Medicina. The original work is at doi:10.3823/001.

Case report

Eruptive xanthomas and acute pancreatitis in a patient with hypertriglyceridemia

Desirée Pérez Martínez¹ , Juan Óscar Fernández Díaz¹ and Carmen Maciá Bobes²

¹  Internal Medicine Department. Hospital San Agustín. Avilés, Asturias, Spain

²  Endocrinology Department. Hospital San Agustín. Avilés, Asturias, Spain

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International Archives of Medicine 2008, 1:6doi:10.1186/1755-7682-1-6

Published:	12 May 2008

Abstract

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 xanthomas.

Translation

This article is translated from Spanish, originally published in Archivos de Medicina. The original work is at doi:10.3823/001