Images in Clinical Practice

Acute Pancreatitis: Prognosis of Vascular Complications.

Medhioub Fatma

https://doi.org/10.32512/jmr.5.1.2022/18.19

Pancreatitis can cause several venous and arterial vascular complications. Major vascular complications of pancreatitis are mostly seen in chronic pancreatitis (7-10%). Venous thromboses are more commonly reported. The splenic vein and less frequently the portal vein are predilection thrombus sites.  The arterial complications are more uncommon and maybe life-threatening in some cases.