1. Severe hypoproteinemia as a harbinger of Ménétrier's disease in autoimmune pancreatitis
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Liliana Andrade Chebli, Pedro Duarte Gaburri, Julio Maria Fonseca Chebli, and Tarsila Campanha da Rocha Ribeiro
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Doença de Ménétrier ,Protein-losing gastropathy ,Disease ,Gastroenterology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Hypoproteinemia ,0302 clinical medicine ,Ménétrier's disease ,Internal medicine ,gastropatia perdedora de proteína ,Biopsy ,medicine ,Autoimmune pancreatitis ,lcsh:R5-920 ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,doença de Ménétrier ,pancreatite autoimune ,Pancreatite autoimune ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Gastritis ,medicine.symptom ,Differential diagnosis ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,business ,Gastropatia perdedora de proteína ,Rare disease - Abstract
A doença de Ménétrier é uma condição extremamente rara, de etiologia desconhecida, caracterizada por hipertrofia da mucosa gástrica e gastropatia perdedora de proteína. Casos raros dessa patologia têm sido relatados em pacientes com doenças autoimunes. Até o momento, desconhecemos qualquer relato dessa doença associada à pancreatite autoimune (PAI). Descrevemos um caso de hipoproteinemia grave como indicador de doença de Ménétrier associada à PAI. O paciente foi tratado de forma satisfatória com octreotide e dieta hiperproteica, alcançando remissão sintomática, melhora significativa das concentrações de albumina e recuperação do estado nutricional. Portanto, em pacientes com PAI e hipoproteinemia grave e persistente, deve-se considerar a doença de Ménétrier como um diagnóstico diferencial. Nesses casos, a avaliação endoscópica com biópsia gástrica, incluindo biópsia de toda a espessura da mucosa, pode ser útil no estabelecimento do diagnóstico e do pronto início da terapêutica. Ménétrier's disease is an extremely rare disease of unknown etiology causing gastric mucosal hypertrophy and protein-losing gastropathy. Rare cases of this condition have been reported in patients with autoimmune diseases. However, to the best of our knowledge, Ménétrier's disease associated with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) has never been reported. We described a case of severe hypoproteinemia as a harbinger of Ménétrier's disease associated with AIP. The patient was successfully treated with octreotide and high-protein diet, which led to symptomatic remission and significant improvement in serum levels of albumin and recovery of the nutritional status. Thus, in AIP patients presenting with severe and persistent hypoproteinemia without apparent cause, clinicians need to consider Ménétrier's disease in the differential diagnosis. In this setting, endoscopic evaluation with histological examination of gastric biopsy material, including a full-thickness mucosal biopsy of involved mucosa, may be helpful in promptly establishing the diagnosis and allowing appropriate and timely therapy.
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- 2017