Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Causal Link or a Mere Coincidence?

Abstract

Both subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and acute pancreatitis (AP) are associated with systemic inflammatory response leading to extracerebral multiple organ dysfunction. In this case report, we describe an adult male, who developed AP in the postoperative period following surgical clipping of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. The diagnosis of pancreatitis got delayed because the patient showed signs of systemic inflammation which would also been seen following SAH.

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“…In humans, acute pancreatitis has been associated with seizures and subarachnoid hemorrhage. 7,11 Seizures may cause either increased intraduodenal pressure and duodenal content reflux into the pancreatic duct, or hypoxia and ischemia with acinar cell injury and consequent pancreatitis. 11 Rhabdomyolysis and subsequent myoglobinuria has also been reported as a complication of extreme hyperthermia.…”