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Internal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan) Sep 2023We herein report two cases of rapidly progressive fatty liver (FL) disease due to pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) without a surgical history. Two women, 59 and...
We herein report two cases of rapidly progressive fatty liver (FL) disease due to pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) without a surgical history. Two women, 59 and 72 years old, with no history of abdominal surgery presented to our hospital with severe anorexia and nausea persisting for one week. Examinations revealed progressive, marked FL disease with hepatomegaly and PEI, for which pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy was effective. Commonly known causes of PEI include chronic pancreatitis, abdominal surgery (e.g. pancreaticoduodenectomy), pancreatic cancer, and obstruction of the pancreatic duct, none of which were present in either of these two cases.
Topics: Humans; Female; Middle Aged; Aged; Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency; Pancreas; Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Pancreatitis, Chronic; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Enzyme Replacement Therapy
PubMed: 36754408
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.0775-22