Cannabis-induced recurrent acute pancreatitis.

Acta Gastroenterol Belg

Service de gastroentérologie et hépatologie, Hôpital Simone Veil, Eaubonne cedex, France.

Published: December 2012

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. Cannabis is an anecdotally reported cause of acute pancreatitis. Six cases have previously been reported. Herein we report a new case of cannabis-induced recurrent acute pancreatitis.

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