Pancreatitis causes

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Causes

Common Causes

• Gallstones
• Excessive alcohol
• Hypertriglyceridemia
• Hypercalcemia
• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
• Autoimmune pancreatitis
• Pregnancy

Causes in Alphabetical Order

• Acute gestational fatty liver
• Alcoholism
• Aminoaciduria
• Ascarides
• Autoimmune pancreatitis
• Bacterial infections
• Blunt Trauma
• Cholelithiasis
• Crohn's Disease
• Cystic fibrosis
• Duodenal diverticulum
• Drugs
  • AIDS drugs such as DDI and Pentamidine
  • Chemotherapeutic agents L-asparaginase and azathioprine
  • Diuretics such as furosemide and hydrochlorothiazide
  • Estrogen
• ERCP
• Fever
• Fungal infections
• Hemochromatosis
• Hereditary pancreatitis
• Hypercalcemia
• Hypertriglyceridemia
• Hypotension
• Leukocytosis
• Necrotizing vascular angiitis
• Pancreatic cysts
• Pancreas divisum
• Partial pancreas resection
• Parasitic infections
• Penetrating trauma
• Penetrating gastrointestinal ulcer
• Porphyrias
  • Acute hepatic porphyrias
  • Acute intermittent porphyria
  • Hereditary coproporphyria
  • Variegate porphyria
  • Erythropoietic protoporphyria.
• Postoperative
• Posttransplantation
• Renal failure
• Stenosis of pancreatic ducts
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
• Viral infections such as mumps