DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2022.v08i01.011

Pages: 50-53

The two main causes of acute pancreatitis currently remain chronic alcoholism and cholelithiasis which are each responsible for about 30 to 40% of cases. Acute pancreatitis remains predominantly of biliary origin in our context, other etiologies are rarely identified and pancreatitis is most often classified as idiopathic. Acute pancreatitis can overwhelm following other unpredictable triggering factors thus explaining the disease. Etiology of its occurrence in the absence of other causes of acute pancreatitis. The aim of our work is to study the unusual presentations on which pancreatitis can occur, through three cases where acute pancreatitis has appeared in particular circumstances.