CONTEXT Drug induced pancreatitis are rare but potentially serious. Thus, drug withdrawal is warranted. CASE REPORT A 79-year-old woman who was treated with antituberculosis therapy for 5 weeks was admitted to our unit for pancreatitis. Usual etiologies of pancreatitis were eliminated. Because of vomiting, antituberculosis therapy was withdrawn and symptoms disappeared. Eight days later, the ...

Drug induced acute pancreatitis is an uncommon cause for acute pancreatitis. To make this diagnosis confidently, certain criteria should be fulfilled. The patient should be receiving the drug when acute pancreatitis develops and the pancreatitis should resolve with cessation of the drug. Also, other causes need to be excluded, and while the patient should ideally have recurrence of the pancreat...

Reports of pulmonary embolism in the setting of acute pancreatitis are rare. We present three cases of acute pancreatitis associated with pulmonary embolism and review the literature. Two of the three patients had severe acute pancreatitis with bilateral pulmonary emboli, and to our knowledge, these cases represent the first report of pulmonary embolism occurring in the setting of pancreatic as...

Acute pancreatitis is the most common and feared complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). It is associated with substantial morbidity and occasional mortality. The mechanisms that lead to post-ERCP pancreatitis are complex and not fully understood. Rather than having a single pathogenesis, post-ERCP pancreatitis is believed to be multi-factorial, involving a combin...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The pathogenic mechanism of pancreatitis is poorly understood. Recent evidence implicates defective autophagy in pancreatitis responses; however, the pathways mediating impaired autophagy in pancreas remain largely unknown. Here, we investigate the role of lysosome associated membrane proteins (LAMPs) in pancreatitis. METHODS We analyzed changes in LAMPs in experimental mode...

CONTEXT Estrogens are thought to cause pancreatitis by raising triglyceride levels but whether there are other effects on the pancreas is debatable. OBJECTIVE To better elucidate the relationship between estrogens and pancreatitis and pancreatic function in a pilot study. DESIGN/SETTING/PATIENTS Our retrospectively collected database of 224 patients who had undergone secretin stimulation te...

Organophosphate poisoning (OP) results in various poisoning symptoms due to its strong inhibitory effect on cholinesterase. One of the occasional complications of OP is pancreatitis. A 62-year-old woman drank alcohol and went home at midnight. After she quarreled with her husband and drank 100 ml of malathion, a parasympathomimetic organophosphate that binds irreversibly to cholinesterase, she ...

The leading positions in terms of frequency, severity the course and high mortality belong to infectious forms acute pancreatitis. However, not all pathophysiological mechanisms development this disorder have been studied. Given that immune responses are an integral part pathogenesis pancreatitis, it is extremely important study relationship between inflammation activation response. This review...

Objectives We retrospectively evaluated the results of pancreatic juice cultures of patients with acute pancreatitis and other pancreatic disorders. Methods Twenty patients who underwent pancreatic juice culture were studied. Nine had acute pancreatitis due to alcohol (n=5), idiopathic causes (n=2), drugs (n=1), or gallstones (n=1), and remaining 11 had other pancreatic disorders such as an int...