EDITOR'S QUIZ: GI SNAPSHOT
An unusual cause of epigastric pain in a diabetic patient
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr C-M Fan
Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, 21, Nan-Ya S Rd, Sec 2, Pan-Chiao, Taipei, Taiwan; r92843017@ntu.edu.tw
Keywords: pyogenic liver abscess; epigastric pain; diabetes mellitus
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A 47 year old woman presented with a three day history of fever and epigastric pain. She had a past medical history of diabetes mellitus regularly controlled by oral hypoglycaemic agents.
Clinically, she had a temperature of 38.7°C. Tenderness could be elicited in the epigastrum and right upper quadrant. Blood investigations revealed a left shift leucocytosis (leucocytes 17980/mm3, neutrophil 88%), hyperglycaemia (capillary sugar 424 mg/dl), negative blood and urine ketone body test, normal serum amylase(6 U/l) and lipase (8 U/l) levels, and abnormal liver function tests (total bilirubin 10.3 µmol/l, alkaline phosphatase 274 U/l, gamma glutamyl transferase 258 U/l, aspartate aminotransferase 64 U/l, and alanine aminotransferase 136 U/l). Abdominal radiograph showed a large region of mottled radiolucency centred at the epigastrum (fig 1
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[in a new window] Figure 1 Abdominal radiograph showed a large region of mottled radiolucency centred at the epigastrum (arrow).
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