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Year : 2016  |  Volume : 19  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 101-103

Autoimmune pancreatitis with pancytopenia: A rare occurrence


MIOT Advanced Centre for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, MIOT Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Arulprakash Sarangapani
MIOT Advanced Centre for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, MIOT Hospitals, Chennai - 600 089, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1118-8561.186033

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Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is considered a distinct type of pancreatitis with an autoimmune pathogenesis. Patients with AIP often develop extrapancreatic lesions such as biliary lesions, sialadenitis, retroperitoneal fibrosis, swelling of lymph nodes, chronic thyroiditis, and interstitial nephritis, suggesting that AIP may be a systemic disease. Moreover, several cases of immune thrombocytopenia and few with neutropenia complicated with AIP have been described. The pathogenesis of thrombocytopenia associated with AIP is still unclear; however, autoimmune processes are suggested. On the other hand, cases of pancytopenia complicated by AIP have not yet been reported. We herein report a very rare case of pancytopenia associated with AIP.


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