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Case Reports in Transplantation
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 768193, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/768193
Case Report

Acute Pancreatitis after Kidney Transplantation

Mithat Tabakovic,1 Nermin N. Salkic,2 Jasmina Bosnjic,3 and Ervin Alibegovic2

1Department of Nephrology, Dyalisis and Transplantation, Internal Medicine Hospital, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Trnovac bb, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina
2Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Internal Medicine Hospital, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Trnovac bb, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina
3Pulmonary Diseases Hospital, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Trnovac bb, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina

Received 25 December 2011; Accepted 30 January 2012

Academic Editors: C. Costa, R. Grenda, and Y. Sato

Copyright © 2012 Mithat Tabakovic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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