A Case of Cannabis-induced Acute Pancreatitis

Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs and is now legally used recreationally or medicinally in more than half of the United States. Cannabis use has been proposed as a cause of acute pancreatitis in patients with no other identifiable etiology. Our case highlights acute pancreatiti...

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Autores principales: John, Jaison, Gandhi, Saurin, Nam, Dolly, Niakan, Lillian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723513
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5754
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description Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs and is now legally used recreationally or medicinally in more than half of the United States. Cannabis use has been proposed as a cause of acute pancreatitis in patients with no other identifiable etiology. Our case highlights acute pancreatitis in a young male patient with no medical problems. It is important to identify the etiology in acute pancreatitis to prevent recurrence and complications.
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spelling pubmed-68254162019-11-13 A Case of Cannabis-induced Acute Pancreatitis John, Jaison Gandhi, Saurin Nam, Dolly Niakan, Lillian Cureus Internal Medicine Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs and is now legally used recreationally or medicinally in more than half of the United States. Cannabis use has been proposed as a cause of acute pancreatitis in patients with no other identifiable etiology. Our case highlights acute pancreatitis in a young male patient with no medical problems. It is important to identify the etiology in acute pancreatitis to prevent recurrence and complications. Cureus 2019-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6825416/ /pubmed/31723513 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5754 Text en Copyright © 2019, John et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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