Serum Amylase and Acute Abdominal Disease

Serum amylase and acute abdominal disease.

Pancreatic amylase in serum for differential diagnosis of acute pancreatitis and acute abdominal diseases.

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Serum or urinary amylase estimations in children with acute abdominal pain.

Serum amylase activity in liver disease.

Serum amylase activity was measured in 15 normal persons and in 60 liverdisease patients. Impairment of liver was assessed by serum bilirubin and thymol turbidity values. Most of the patients had serum amylase values that were well below the normal limits. Amylase activities were related to the degree of liver dysfunction, and serum amylase decreased as the bilirubin and turbidity values increa...

Serum lipase activity is increased in disease states other than acute pancreatitis: amylase revisited.

For more than 50 years, total serum amylase activity has been the biochemical test most commonly used to confirm the clinical diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. Serum amylase activity has been hoisted onto this pedestal by default, because until recently it has been the only reproducible and rapid diagnostic assay available in clinically emergent settings. As a result of our longstanding dependen...