Acute Pancreatitis Secondary to Hypercalcemia

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HYPERCALCEMIA due to primary hyperparathyroidism is often associated with acute pancreatitis. On the other hand, hypercalcemia accompanying other conditions is rarely the cause of pancreatitis.1-5We report a case of carcinoma of the breast with bone metastases and hypercalcemia associated with acute pancreatitis. Report of a Case A 76-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Medicine because of diffuse abdominal pains, constipation, nausea, and vomiting of one week's duration. Two months prior to admission, she felt a mass in her right breast. Examination by mammography gave indications suspicious of neoplasm and she was referred for further investigation. The patient had had a hysterectomy 28 years before because of uterine myomatosis, and a cholecystectomy one year later because of cholelithiasis. For the eight years preceding admission to our department she had been treated with methyldopa, 500 mg/day, because of hypertension. On examination, the patient was found to be in