The correct answer of the given patient case is Option B Acute Pancreatitis Acute pancreatitis (AP) is the inflammation of the pancreas causing severe pain and is also sometimes fatal. AP is caused when the cellular homeostasis of the body is imbalanced due to injury to the acinar cells, drug abuse etc. It is also believed that external factors such as neural and vascular responses, and intracellular factors such as intracellular digestive enzyme activation, increase in calcium signalling, and heat shock protein activation are the pathophysiologic events that trigger the onset of AP.
Incidences of AP are 34 every 1 lac people in the general population and are increasing day by day (2). In the present case, the patient suffered from severe abdominal pain that radiated to the back and she also had nausea and vomiting. Since no clear diagnosis was obtained from the laboratory tests, a CT…
