Cannabis-induced recurrent acute pancreatitis.

Acute pancreatitis has a large number of causes. Major causes are alcohol and gallstones. Toxic causes, mainly represented by medication-induced pancreatitis account for less than 2% of the cases.

Socioeconomic deprivation does not influence the severity of Crohn's disease: Results of a prospective multicenter study.

Background: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with poor health. The aims of this study were to evaluate the influence of deprivation in the characteristics and comparisons of deprived and nondeprived Crohn's disease (CD) patients.

Methods: CD patients were prospectively recruited from September 2006 to June 2007 in 6 hospitals in the Paris area.

Sclerosing mesenteritis associated with giant-cell temporal arteritis.

A 72-year-old man presented with a history of progressive abdominal pain associated with simultaneous headache, constitutional syndrome, and weight loss. A CT scan demonstrated sclerosing mesenteritis (SM). A surgical biopsy of mesenteric tissue excluded malignancies and a temporal artery biopsy showed giant-cell arteritis, establishing the diagnosis of SM associated with giant-cell temporal arteritis (GCA).

Pegylated interferon-induced eyelid and eyebrow trichomegaly during chronic hepatitis C.

One of the most common skin and hair growth disorders related to interferon therapy is alopecia. Hypertrichosis has also been reported as a rare side-effect of interferon therapy, especially in eyelashes. Herein is reported a case of eyelid and eyebrow trichomegaly in a patient treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C associated with porphyria cutanea tarda.

Omeprazole-induced intractable cough.

Objective: To report a case of chronic, persistent cough induced by omeprazole therapy.

Case Summary: A 42-year-old white woman presented with chronic, persistent cough after omeprazole initiation for treatment of postoperative heartburn. The cough was permanent, dry, and exhausting and worsened at night.