Acute necrotic parotitis

Acute Necrotic Parotitis

Enalaprilat induced acute parotitis.

Drug induced acute parotitis is a very uncommon complication reported with a few drugs only. There is no case of acute bilateral parotitis reported previously with i.v. enalaprilat. We present here a female patient who developed acute bilateral parotitis within minutes of i.v. enalaprilat injection and recovered within 24 hours of stopping the drug and with symptomatic treatment.

Acute suppurative parotitis.

The parotid is the salivary gland most affected by inflammatory process. The authors reviewed the records of 36 patients with acute suppurative parotitis admitted between July 1996 and June 2002. All patients had unilateral swelling of the cheek that extended to the angle of the jaw; 23 had fever (64%) and 6 diabetes (17%). Even though Staphylococcus aureus is the usual pathogen in acute suppur...

Recurrent bilateral parotitis in acute myeloid leukemia.

Acute bilateral parotitis during chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

John E. Humphries, MD, Department of Pathology, Box 214, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908 (USA) Shpilberg et al. [1] recently presented a 62-year-old man who developed recurrent bilateral parotitis during chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia. The development of parotitis was attributed to the chemotherapy, which consisted of cytarabine and daunorub...