Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/10075962
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Affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Municipal Hospital of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.Abstract
In most treatment studies on acute pancreatitis, pancreatologists base their diagnosis on amylase/lipase levels more than three times above the upper limit of normal (>3n) and thus exclude patients with smaller enzyme level increases. The recommendations derived from the results of treatment studies do not take into account such patients. Non-pancreatologists frequently believe that only patients with high enzyme levels have a serious prognosis.
PMID
10075962