Brown Journal of Hospital Medicine (Apr 2022)

Isotretinoin-associated acute pancreatitis

  • Vijairam Selvaraj,
  • Sherry DeMacedo,
  • Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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Acute pancreatitis is the leading cause of hospitalization in the US among gastrointestinal etiologies. Drug-induced pancreatitis is rare, although not uncommon. We describe a patient who developed acute pancreatitis after starting isotretinoin without associated dyslipidemia.