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Case Reports
. 1993 Jan;8(1):123-6.

Acute pancreatitis: induced by heroin intoxication?

P G Lankisch  1 , H Niederstadt, E Redlin-Kress, R Mahlke, A Brand
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  • PMID: 7678324
Case Reports

Acute pancreatitis: induced by heroin intoxication?

P G Lankisch et al. Pancreas. 1993 Jan.

Abstract

Hyperamylasemia has been reported in heroin addicts and ascribed to an increase of salivary isoamylase. Ours is the first report on acute pancreatitis in a heroin user. All prognostic parameters indicating a severe course of the disease were present, and computed tomography showed an edematous pancreatitis, but the acute pancreatitis took a benign clinical course.

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