Pancreatitis aguda asociada con hiperparatiroidismo primario.

BACKGROUND: Acute pancreatitis is the most common gastrointestinal disease in hospital admissions. The predominant causes are: gallstones (40%), prolonged alcohol consumption (30%) and hypertriglyceridemia (2-5%). Other less frequent causes are related to drugs, trauma, ischemia, infections, autoimmune diseases, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and hypercalcemia. CLINICAL CASE: A 54-year-old patient with acute pancreatitis associated to goiter, bilateral renal lithiasis, and hypercalcemia, with no important pathological history for the current disease. Therefore, a study protocol was performed as a reason for acute pancreatitis, finding primary hyperparathyroidism due to a parathyroid adenoma as cause of the acute disease. CONCLUSIONS: In this case, definitive surgery avoided acute complications, and could prevent disability and chronic or recurrent pancreatitis readmissions, that could lead the patient even to death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]