An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman
Gullo’s syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis, elev...
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| author | Abdelhakim Ainahi Abdellaziz Ziane Lahcen Wakrim Naima Elmdaghri Abdelhamid Barakat |
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| description | Gullo’s syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis, elevated values of serum amylase and lipase were fortuitously observed (198 and 1461 U/L, resp.). Over five years of regular pancreas surveillance, all clinical, biological, and imaging investigations were normal. However, the pancreatic enzyme levels have shown considerable fluctuations including some episodic transient normalization. The description of this benign pancreatic hyperenzymemia case incidentally associated with endometriosis disease is a very rare clinical situation. More in-depth documentation of this phenomenon may help clinicians to avoid unnecessary diagnostic management approaches and reassure the concerned patients that this affection would not be so worrying. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-aa78139d5d5244039cbd3ca879bba2232025-02-03T01:24:26ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352018-01-01201810.1155/2018/63102456310245An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal WomanAbdelhakim Ainahi0Abdellaziz Ziane1Lahcen Wakrim2Naima Elmdaghri3Abdelhamid Barakat4Hormonology and Tumor Markers Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, MoroccoPrivate Practice, Casablanca, MoroccoVirology Unit, Immunovirology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, MoroccoHormonology and Tumor Markers Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, MoroccoHuman Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, MoroccoGullo’s syndrome is a singular physiological phenomenon defined by an abnormal increase in serum pancreatic enzyme levels that may occur in healthy subjects in the absence of pancreatic disorders. During routine health examination in a 54-year-old postmenopausal woman with severe endometriosis, elevated values of serum amylase and lipase were fortuitously observed (198 and 1461 U/L, resp.). Over five years of regular pancreas surveillance, all clinical, biological, and imaging investigations were normal. However, the pancreatic enzyme levels have shown considerable fluctuations including some episodic transient normalization. The description of this benign pancreatic hyperenzymemia case incidentally associated with endometriosis disease is a very rare clinical situation. More in-depth documentation of this phenomenon may help clinicians to avoid unnecessary diagnostic management approaches and reassure the concerned patients that this affection would not be so worrying.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6310245 |
| spellingShingle | Abdelhakim Ainahi Abdellaziz Ziane Lahcen Wakrim Naima Elmdaghri Abdelhamid Barakat An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
| title_full | An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
| title_fullStr | An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
| title_short | An Unusual Case of Gullo’s Syndrome Concomitant with Serious Endometriosis Disease in a Postmenopausal Woman |
| title_sort | unusual case of gullo s syndrome concomitant with serious endometriosis disease in a postmenopausal woman |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6310245 |
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