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Lamotrigine-Induced Acute Pancreatitis

Drug-induced pancreatitis is a rare phenomenon. Therefore, diagnosis requires ruling out more common etiologies of acute pancreatitis. The majority of research on drug-induced pancreatitis is from case reports. Only a limited number of drugs have been definitively established to induce pancreatitis....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Elmusa, Emad, Raza, Muhammad Waleed, Muneeb, Ahmad, Hamza, Ameer, Butt, Mujtaba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9884483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721543
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33135
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Sumario:Drug-induced pancreatitis is a rare phenomenon. Therefore, diagnosis requires ruling out more common etiologies of acute pancreatitis. The majority of research on drug-induced pancreatitis is from case reports. Only a limited number of drugs have been definitively established to induce pancreatitis. Lamotrigine is used in both bipolar and epilepsy. Lamotrigine is currently weakly identified to induce pancreatitis. We present a case of lamotrigine-induced pancreatitis. Extensive workup ruled out other major causes of pancreatitis-including alcohol. We aimed to show lamotrigine can be a causative drug of acute pancreatitis.