Acute pancreatitis due to pravastatin therapy

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-132

  Anagnostopoulos, George K ^a,b   Tsiakos, Stavros ^a   Margantinis, George ^a   Kostopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Arvanitidis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Case report; Chemicals and drugs category; Gemfibrozil; Naphthalenes; Pancreatitis; Pharmaceutical preparations; Polycyclic hydrocarbons; Polycyclic hydrocarbons, aromatic; Pravastatin

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; BEZAFIBRATE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENOFIBRATE; FLUINDOSTATIN; GEMFIBROZIL; MEVINOLIN; PRAVASTATIN; SALICYLIC ACID; SIMVASTATIN; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; ULTRASOUND; ACUTE DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PRAVASTATIN;

EID: 0038824044     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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