ABSTRACT
Acute pancreatitis may be caused by drugs. In the literature, there are more than
260 different drugs that have been blamed for causing pancreatitis. Among these drugs,
only 1 case has been reported as clomiphene-induced acute pancreatitis. However, in
this single case, there was concomitant hypertrigliceridemia. We report the case of
a woman who developed 2 attacks of acute pancreatitis without hypertriglyceridemia
while receiving treatment with clomiphene.
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Publication history
Accepted:
September 11,
2006
Received:
May 23,
2006
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