Table 1. Summary of estrogen-induced acute pancreatitis cases with IVF, and with latency.

Case report	Age (yr)	Sex	The purpose of using estrogen	Latency	Initial serum triglyceride level (mg/dL)	Follow-up serum triglyceride level (mg/dL)
Lee and Goldberg [3]	33	Female	IVF ovulation induction	-	>2,400	<80 (2 mon)
	22	Female	IVF ovulation induction		>7,000	1,083 (7 mon)
	28	Female	IVF ovulation induction		1,500	420 (4 mon)
Perego et al. [5]	37	Male	Preparatory to sex change surgery	2 mon	5,174	181 (22 day)
Abraham et al. [2]	24	Female	-	9 yr	2,230	355 (7 day)
Bank and Marks [13]	29	Female	-	2 mon	7,450	-
Davidoff et al. [14]	33	Female	-	23 mon	3,560	-
Ruman et al. [15]	30	Female	Preparation for ET	-	8,062	353 (7 mon)

IVF, in vitro fertilization; ET, embryo transfer.