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A prospective study was conducted on 17 cases of acute pancreatitis; encephalopathy was discovered in six patients (35%). The following parameters were studied: the usual ones in pancreatitis conditions (amylasemia, lipasemia, amylasuria, ions, glucose, pO2, pCO2, pH, etc.), and electroencephalographic changes and determinations in CSF of cells, proteins, lipase, amylase, lipides and cholesterol. A direct relationship was found to exist between the pancreatic encephalopahy condition and an increase in CSF-lipase. The electroencephalographic changes were nonspecific. The encephalopathy did not affect the course of the pancreatitis condition, and showed no relationship to type of treatment involved. The severity of the pancreatitis was not related to the presence or absence of encephalopathy.
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PMID:Pancreatic encephalopathy. 45 37

The authors describe a case of pancreatic encephalopathy. This uncommon condition, rarely described in the literature, occurs with neuropsychiatric signs 3-4 days after the onset of acute pancreatitis. Diagnosis is due to clinical and biochemical findings and to post mortem examinations revealing also amylase in CSF.
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PMID:[Pancreatic encephalopathy. Description of an unusual case]. 765 70

We describe here a 71-year-old man who had herpes zoster encephalitis. He developed high fever, headache and disturbance of consciousness on 1st, May, 1998. On admission, neurological examination revealed disturbance of consciousness with restlessness and meningeal signs. Brain MRI (T 1 and T 2 weighted images) demonstrated high signal lesions in the left temporal lobe and cerebellar vermis. VSV encephalitis was diagnosed based on CSF pleocytosis, high serum and CSF titers of VZV antibody and EEG abnormality. During hospitalization, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, herpes zoster generalisatus and acute pancreatitis developed. To our knowledge, the characteristic combination of the clinical signs in this case is very rare. We discussed the pathogenic mechanisms of these conditions, and this case was considered to have VZV encephalitis, and to be associated with right facial nerve palsy and pancreatitis, in spite of the absence of immunological deficiency.
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PMID:[A case of herpes zoster encephalitis with Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, herpes zoster generalisatus and acute pancreatitis]. 1068 90