Steroid-induced pancreatitis

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Abstract
A cute pancreatitis occurred in a 13-year-old girl with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura several days after treatment was begun with 200 mg of prednisone daily. Although morphologic evidence at autopsy and experimental data in animals strongly support the etiologic role of adrenocortical hormones in pancreatitis, this is thought to be only the 3rd case diagnosed prior to autopsy or exploratory surgery and only the 15th case of clinically apparent pancreatitis reported in the literature.