Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report
Abstract Background Gestational diabetes mellitus is strongly related to the risk of pancreatic cancer in pregnant women, but gestational diabetes can precede a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by many years. Women with a history of gestational diabetes showed a relative risk of pancreatic cancer of 7...
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doaj-1d8e2ef1789e4e87ac544332d31308bf2020-11-25T01:38:57ZengBMCJournal of Medical Case Reports1752-19472018-12-011211410.1186/s13256-018-1911-9Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case reportAi-Wu Shi0Xiao-Feng Shen1Hong-Juan Ding2Yao-Qiu Liu3Li Meng4Bill Kalionis5Department of Maternity Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityDepartment of Maternity Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityDepartment of Maternity Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityDepartment of Maternity Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityDepartment of Maternity Intensive Care Unit, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityDepartment of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Pregnancy Research Centre, Royal Women’s HospitalAbstract Background Gestational diabetes mellitus is strongly related to the risk of pancreatic cancer in pregnant women, but gestational diabetes can precede a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by many years. Women with a history of gestational diabetes showed a relative risk of pancreatic cancer of 7.1. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most common malignancies associated with thromboembolic events. A clinical study showed that thromboembolic events were detected in 36% of patients diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer. Studies showed that gestational diabetes mellitus could be one of the important risk factors for pancreatic cancer. Case presentation Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of breast and pancreatic cancer. This case report describes a 29-year-old Chinese woman who presented with: gestational diabetes mellitus; International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis criteria suggested disseminated intravascular coagulation with a score of 5; hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count syndrome; and pulmonary hypertension. After an intravenous injection of fibrinogen, she gave birth to a normal baby and following delivery, her blood pressure reached 180/110 mmHg. Laboratory analysis results showed elevated lactic dehydrogenase, decreased platelets and fibrinogen, and urine protein was positive. She was transfused with fresh frozen plasma, blood coagulation factor, and fibrinogen. Subsequently, she was transferred to a maternity intensive care unit, where magnesium sulfate seizure prophylaxis was continued for 24 hours to keep her magnesium level at a low therapeutic range. However, continuous oxygen therapy was needed to maintain her oxygenation. Further laboratory investigations revealed elevated carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 19-9, and carbohydrate antigen 72-4. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography showed malignant carcinoma in the head of her pancreas with lymph node involvement along with bone, peritoneal, and left adrenal metastasis, as well as double lung lymphangitic carcinomatosis. Conclusion A differential diagnosis of digestive system neoplasm should be considered when a pregnant patient presents with gestational diabetes mellitus and disseminated intravascular coagulation, where the disseminated intravascular coagulation has no specific cause and cannot be readily resolved.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13256-018-1911-9Gestational diabetes mellitusDisseminated intravascular coagulationHELLP syndromePulmonary hypertensionPancreatic cancer |
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Ai-Wu Shi Xiao-Feng Shen Hong-Juan Ding Yao-Qiu Liu Li Meng Bill Kalionis Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports Gestational diabetes mellitus Disseminated intravascular coagulation HELLP syndrome Pulmonary hypertension Pancreatic cancer |
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Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report |
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Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report |
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Pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report |
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pancreatic carcinoma underlying a complex presentation in late pregnancy: a case report |
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Abstract Background Gestational diabetes mellitus is strongly related to the risk of pancreatic cancer in pregnant women, but gestational diabetes can precede a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by many years. Women with a history of gestational diabetes showed a relative risk of pancreatic cancer of 7.1. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most common malignancies associated with thromboembolic events. A clinical study showed that thromboembolic events were detected in 36% of patients diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer. Studies showed that gestational diabetes mellitus could be one of the important risk factors for pancreatic cancer. Case presentation Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of breast and pancreatic cancer. This case report describes a 29-year-old Chinese woman who presented with: gestational diabetes mellitus; International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis criteria suggested disseminated intravascular coagulation with a score of 5; hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count syndrome; and pulmonary hypertension. After an intravenous injection of fibrinogen, she gave birth to a normal baby and following delivery, her blood pressure reached 180/110 mmHg. Laboratory analysis results showed elevated lactic dehydrogenase, decreased platelets and fibrinogen, and urine protein was positive. She was transfused with fresh frozen plasma, blood coagulation factor, and fibrinogen. Subsequently, she was transferred to a maternity intensive care unit, where magnesium sulfate seizure prophylaxis was continued for 24 hours to keep her magnesium level at a low therapeutic range. However, continuous oxygen therapy was needed to maintain her oxygenation. Further laboratory investigations revealed elevated carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 19-9, and carbohydrate antigen 72-4. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography showed malignant carcinoma in the head of her pancreas with lymph node involvement along with bone, peritoneal, and left adrenal metastasis, as well as double lung lymphangitic carcinomatosis. Conclusion A differential diagnosis of digestive system neoplasm should be considered when a pregnant patient presents with gestational diabetes mellitus and disseminated intravascular coagulation, where the disseminated intravascular coagulation has no specific cause and cannot be readily resolved. |
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Gestational diabetes mellitus Disseminated intravascular coagulation HELLP syndrome Pulmonary hypertension Pancreatic cancer |
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