case of successful treatment with vasopressin for severe acute pancreatitis in a melancholic patient administrated antipsychotic agents

ABSTRACT

We report a 50-year-old woman with severe acute pancreatitis induced shock, who was successfully treated with vasopressin. She took some antipsychotic agents for depression. Although treatment was started with continuous intravenous dopamine and noradrenaline, hypotension was not controlled. After continuous intravenous vasopressin was initiated, arterial blood pressure [BP] was raised and maintained. Vasopressin was effective to catecholamine-resistant shock in severe acute pancreatitis of the melancholic patient