Endocrine Abstracts

Backgound: Familial hypertriglyceridemia may lead to acute pancreatitis also during pregnancy in some cases. We present two cases with hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis that recurred despite diet and medical therapy during pregnancy.Case presentation: Twenty-eight-year-old woman presented with hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis (serum triglyceride: 8502 mg/dL) that was complicated with respiratory distress at 25 weeks of gestation. Followi...