Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas and a leading gastrointestinal cause of admission in the United States. The most common causes of acute pancreatitis are gallstones and alcohol. It is rarely caused by medications. Azathioprine-induced pancreatitis is rare and is more co...

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Autores principales: Ghazanfar, Haider, Shin, Dongmin, Ihimoyan, Ariyo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9847485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36686137
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32697
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author Ghazanfar, Haider
Shin, Dongmin
Ihimoyan, Ariyo
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description Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas and a leading gastrointestinal cause of admission in the United States. The most common causes of acute pancreatitis are gallstones and alcohol. It is rarely caused by medications. Azathioprine-induced pancreatitis is rare and is more common in patients with Crohn’s Disease. In this case report, we present a rare case of azathioprine-induced pancreatitis in a 58-year-old African American patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
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spelling pubmed-98474852023-01-19 Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Ghazanfar, Haider Shin, Dongmin Ihimoyan, Ariyo Cureus Internal Medicine Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas and a leading gastrointestinal cause of admission in the United States. The most common causes of acute pancreatitis are gallstones and alcohol. It is rarely caused by medications. Azathioprine-induced pancreatitis is rare and is more common in patients with Crohn’s Disease. In this case report, we present a rare case of azathioprine-induced pancreatitis in a 58-year-old African American patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Cureus 2022-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9847485/ /pubmed/36686137 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32697 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ghazanfar et al. https://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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Ghazanfar, Haider
Shin, Dongmin
Ihimoyan, Ariyo
Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_fullStr Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full_unstemmed Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_short Azathioprine-Induced Pancreatitis in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_sort azathioprine-induced pancreatitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9847485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36686137
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32697
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