Acute pancreatitis with pulmonary embolism: A case report

Table 1 A brief on acute pancreatitis with pulmonary embolism

Ref.	Year	Age/sex	Clinical symptoms	Predisposing factors	External pulmonary vein thrombosis	Imaging performance	D-dimer	Outcome
Deiss et al[17]	2014	28/F	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension	NA	NA	Multiple pulmonary emboli in bilateral lower lobes, a right-sided pleural effusion, and lower lobe consolidation, ascites	NA	Cure
Deiss et al[17]	2014	32/M	Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, nonbloody diarrhea, abdominal distension, dyspnea, hemoptysis, fever	NA	NA	Bilateral pulmonary emboli, pleural effusions, and ascites	NA	Cure
Deiss et al[17]	2014	21/F	Chest tightness, shortness of breath, mid-back and abdominal soreness	Medical history of craniotomy 1 wk prior, oral contraceptives	NA	Pulmonary embolism in the right lower lobe	911 µg/L	Cure
Herath et al[18]	2016	38/M	Upper abdominal pain, bloating, vomiting, edema of both ankles	No	DVT	Pulmonary embolism of the right lower lobe, pulmonary artery, and segmental branches of the left pulmonary artery. Pseudocyst of pancreatic head compressed inferior vena cava. Gross ascites and minimal pleural effusion	1430 µg/L	Cure
Zhang et al[19]	2012	38/F	Abdominal pain, vomiting, cough and expectoration with a little blood, progressive dyspnea	NA	No celiac and pelvic vein thrombosis or proximal leg deep venous thrombosis	Pulmonary embolism (both down pulmonary arteries, left pulmonary artery, and branch of right pulmonary artery). Bilateral pleural effusion, lung infection and pulmonary hypertension	More than 500 µg/L	Cure
Goenka et al[20]	1994	35/M	Upper abdominal pain, fever, shortness of breath, dyspnea, pain, and swelling of right calf	NA	Inferior vena cava thrombosis	Pulmonary embolism, pancreatic necrosis	NA	Cure
Our case	2020	68/F	Abdominal pain, shortness of breath, dyspnea, symmetrical edema of both lower limbs	Hypertension, type 2 diabetes	DVT and superficial vein thrombosis	The left main pulmonary artery and multiple branches of the left and right pulmonary arteries. Low to moderate pleural effusion, lung infection, abdominal effusion, pancreatic necrosis	16820 µg/L	Cure

DVT: Deep vein thrombosis; F: Female; M: Male; NA: Not available.