Zieve's syndrome. A case report
Allen, C.
Delaware Medical Journal 39(8): 207-210
1967
ISSN/ISBN: 0011-7781 PMID: 6074330 Document Number: 17292
Zieve's syndrome, probably more common than is currently believed, illustrates another of the protean manifestations of alcoholic cirrhosis. The entity is important to recognize since overly enthusiastic treatment of either the hemolysis or hyperlipemia or surgery for the abdominal pain can be avoided. Awareness is the key to the diagnosis. Whether the condition itself deserves a special name really isn't important; the important consideration is that one be aware that alcoholic cirrhosis associated with pancreatic dysfunction can give this clinical state. Since this patient was first observed and brought this clinical syndrome to our attention, we have seen two and probably a third case that clearly fit into acute transient hyperlipemia due to hepatopancreatic damage in chronic alcoholics.
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