منابع مشابه
Gastroenteritis-associated hyperamylasemia: prevalence and clinical significance.
BACKGROUND Serum amylase levels can be elevated in various pathological conditions. However, acute gastroenteritis has not been widely recognized as a cause for hyperamylasemia. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of amylase results for all patients hospitalized or discharged from the emergency department with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis from April through November 1999...
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BACKGROUND Many case reports of acute pancreatitis have been reported but, up to now, pancreatic abnormalities during acute gastroenteritis have not been studied prospectively. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence and the clinical significance of hyperamylasemia in 507 consecutive adult patients with acute gastroenteritis. METHODS The clinical significance of hyperamylasemia, related predis...
متن کاملFamilial hyperamylasemia.
A 7-year-old white boy was referred to us with a history of 3 attacks of hypogastric pain over the previous 2 years and persistently elevated serum amylase concentrations. At physical examination, he was well with no evidence of clinical abnormalities. His weight and height were normal. Laboratory diagnostic investigations were all normal except for the presence of Ascaris lumbricoides in the f...
متن کاملMarked hyperamylasemia associated with carcinoma of the lung.
We present a case of marked hyperamylasemia associated with undifferentiated small cell carcinoma of the lung. The serum alpha-amylase had an electrophoretic mobility similar to that of salivary gland enzyme (s-type), and that in tissue extracts from the lung tumor and metastatic skin nodules showed similar migration. No evidence of a salivary or pancreatic cause of hyperamylasemia was found at...
متن کاملNonspecific hyperamylasemia: a case report.
CONTEXT The elevation of serum amylase and lipase are generally associated with pancreatic diseases. However they can be associated with different pathologies unrelated with amylase and lipase. CASE REPORT This paper aims to report a case of a patient diagnosed with nonspecific hyperamylasemia and warn of this possibility in the differentiation of hyperamylasemia. CONCLUSION The correct dia...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.162.6.689