Drug-induced pancreatitis is a rare phenomenon. Therefore, diagnosis requires ruling out more common etiologies of acute pancreatitis. The majority of research on drug-induced pancreatitis is from case reports. Only a limited number of drugs have been definitively established to induce pancreatitis. Lamotrigine is used in both bipolar and epilepsy. Lamotrigine is currently weakly identified to induce pancreatitis. We present a case of lamotrigine-induced pancreatitis. Extensive workup ruled out other major causes of pancreatitis-including alcohol. We aimed to show lamotrigine can be a causative drug of acute pancreatitis.
Keywords: ct; drug-induced pancreatitis; lamotrigine; mri; pancreatitis; ultrasound; valproic acid.
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