Dengue presenting as a case of acute pancreatitis-A rare case report

Goutam Kumar Acherjya; Keya Tarafder; Md Abu Sayeed; Goutam Kumar Ghosh; Md Jahangir Hossain; Shahadat Hossain; Mohammad Ali; Md Alamgir Kabir; Rajashish Chakrabortty

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6926

Dengue presenting as a case of acute pancreatitis-A rare case report

Clin Case Rep. 2023 Feb 8;11(2):e6926. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6926. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Authors

Goutam Kumar Acherjya¹, Keya Tarafder², Md Abu Sayeed³, Goutam Kumar Ghosh¹, Md Jahangir Hossain⁴, Shahadat Hossain⁴, Mohammad Ali⁵, Md Alamgir Kabir⁴, Rajashish Chakrabortty⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine Jashore Medical College Jashore Bangladesh.
² Department of Dermatology 250 Bedded General Hospital Jashore Bangladesh.
³ Department of Radiology & Imaging 250 Bedded General Hospital Jashore Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Medicine 250 Bedded General Hospital Jashore Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Haematology National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital Dhaka Bangladesh.
⁶ Department of Respiratory Medicine Bangabondu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Dhaka Bangladesh.

Abstract

Atypical presentations may be presented with the common symptoms in Dengue. We, hereby, present a case of Dengue who was admitted in our hospital with the complaints of fever, upper abdominal pain, and vomiting, literally diagnosed as a case of acute pancreatitis.

Keywords: acute pancreatitis; atypical presentation; dengue; epidemic stage.

Publication types

Case Reports