BACKGROUND Pancreas-specific complications (PSCs), comprising postoperative pancreatic fistula, haemorrhage and intra-abdominal collections, are drivers of morbidity and mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). A serum amylase concentration of 130 units/l or more on postoperative day (POD) 0 has been shown to be an objective surrogate of pancreatic texture, a determinant of PSCs. This stud...

The research included isolation and purification of Trypsin from serum patient with pancreatic cancer, estimation its molecular weight by using the two techniques gel filtration (using sephadex G-50) electrophoresis SDS). Therefore; it was noted that proteinous peak isolated ammonium sulfate solution is saturated (65%) had apparent (27000) Dalton. study (40) patients pancreas cancer their ages ...

An increase in the serum concentration of pancreatic enzymes (amylase and lipase) is commonly an expression of inflammatory or neoplastic pancreatic disease. However, an elevation of pancreatic enzymes, generally mild, may be a non-specific phenomenon without any clinical implication. The large spreading of the serum pancreatic enzymes dosage in clinical practice, particularly in emergency room...

Serum and urine total alpha-amylase isoenzymes values were estimated in two groups of patients, who underwent either elective cholecystectomy and operative cholangiogram (group A-59 patients) or cholecystectomy without operative cholangiogram (group B - 68 patients). Serum and urine total alpha-amylase and pancreatic isoamylase (p-type) values were statistically significantly increased within t...

A 65-year-old man with chronic hepatitis C and no history of alcohol abuse was admitted to our liver unit for the recent development of massive ascites and presumed hepatorenal syndrome. In the preceding two weeks, he had received medical treatment for acute pancreatitis and cholecystitis. Abdominal paracentesis demonstrated a cloudy, orange peritoneal fluid, with total protein concentration 3....

OBJECTIVE To establish whether the Ischemia-Modified Albumin (IMA), a new parameter of oxidative stress, has diagnostic role in experimental acute pancreatitis. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Experimental Animal Center, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey, from May to September 2013. METHODOLOGY Sixteen Sprague-Dawley rats were rando...

The sensitivity of diagnostic serum amylase (greater than 1000 iu/l) was assessed in 417 patients with acute pancreatitis as a result of gall stones (258), alcohol (104), or miscellaneous causes (55), of whom 111 (27%) had a clinically severe attack (including 34 deaths). On hospital admission, an amylase value diagnostic of pancreatitis was found in 96.1% of all mild cases and in 87.4% of seve...