Acute pancreatitis biomarkers: to many or too few?
by Dr Allison B. Chambliss The diagnosis of acute pancreatitis has long relied on elevations in serum amylase or lipase. Recent test utilization efforts have called f or the discontinuation of amylase in acute pancreatitis, favouring the higher specificity and longer elevation of lipase. However, neither biomarker correlates with disease severity, and early recognition of […]
