       Document 0405
 DOCN  M9640405
 TI    Fatal pancreatitis as a complication of therapy for HIV infection.
 DT    9604
 AU    Pelucio MT; Rothenhaus T; Smith M; Ward DJ; Department of Emergency
       Medicine, Ronald Reagan Institute of; Emergency Medicine, George
       Washington University Medical Center,; Washington, District of Columbia,
       USA.
 SO    J Emerg Med. 1995 Sep-Oct;13(5):633-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96079181
 AB    Acute pancreatitis in HIV-infected patients with or without AIDS has
       been reported with increasing frequency over the past several years.
       Drugs used to treat HIV-infected patients are often the cause. We report
       a case of a 46-year-old HIV-infected man who presented to the emergency
       department with abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute
       pancreatitis. The patient had recently begun taking 2',3'-dideoxyinosine
       (ddI). He died shortly after admission to the hospital; CT scan and
       autopsy confirmed the cause of death as hemorrhagic pancreatitis. We
       briefly review the literature on the incidence and severity of
       pancreatitis in association with ddI and pentamidine therapy.
 DE    Abdominal Pain/ETIOLOGY  Acute Disease  Aerosols  Antifungal
       Agents/ADMINISTRATION & DOSAGE/ADVERSE EFFECTS  Case Report
       Didanosine/ADMINISTRATION & DOSAGE/*ADVERSE EFFECTS  Fatal Outcome
       Human  HIV Infections/*DRUG THERAPY  Infusions, Intravenous  Male
       Middle Age  Pancreatitis/*CHEMICALLY
       INDUCED/COMPLICATIONS/DIAGNOSIS/THERAPY  Pentamidine/ADMINISTRATION &
       DOSAGE/ADVERSE EFFECTS  Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors/*ADVERSE
       EFFECTS  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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