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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

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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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CLINICAL PRESENTATION
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, arrow).

View larger version (126K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1  Abdominal radiograph showed a large region of mottled radiolucency centred at the epigastrum (arrow).

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