Tetracycline-induced pancreatitis.

The assumption that tetracycline HCl can cause acute pancreatitis has been accepted since reports began to appear implicating it as a cause of fatty liver in pregnancy with associated pancreatitis. It is listed as an etiologic factor for acute pancreatitis in reference articles and standard medical textbooks without good documentation of this association in the absence of fatty liver. This report describes a documented case of tetracycline HCl-induced acute pancreatitis without associated overt liver disease.