Table 1.

Standard diagnostic work-up

Detailed personal and family history, including questions on:	Alcohol use
	Recent ERCP
	Recent start or changes in use of drugs associated with acute pancreatitis
	Recent major abdominal trauma
	Recent abdominal surgery
	Familial and hereditary pancreatitis
	Cystic fibrosis-related pancreatitis
Laboratory tests, including:	Blood serum triglyceride level
	Blood serum calcium level, corrected for the blood serum albumin level
	Blood serum ALT level on admission
Imaging:	Transabdominal ultrasound, MRI or MRCP after clinical recovery

Standard diagnostic work-up according to the 2013 International Association of Pancreatology/American Pancreatic Association evidence-based guidelines on management of acute pancreatitis. A listing of the drugs considered to be associated with acute pancreatitis is listed in online supplementary additional file 1.

ALT, alanine aminotransferase; ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography; MRCP, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreaticography.