A Case of Macroamylasemia With Respiratory and Urinary Tract Infection

The clinical features of patients with macroamylasemia are diverse. A certain correlation between macroamylasemia and the disease of the pancreas or hepato-biliary system may exist, because among 7 patients in this series 4 patients were diagnosed as acute pancreatitis or relapsing pancreatitis and another patient was performed choledochotomy and manipulation of papilla of Vater may had a effect on pancreas. Among other 2 patients, one was completely symptomless and had no abnormal findings and in another the action of anticancer drugs is suspected. The course of macroamylasemia is usually chronic but in this series one patient had acute transient macroamylasemia and another one had intermittent macroamylasemia during exacerbations of pancreatitis. The serum amylase levels are mostly 2-4 times above normal with one exception (192 Somogyi units) and urinary amylase values are low with one exception (1922 Somogyi units) during exacerbation of pancreatitis. Characteristic zymogram of macroamylase on electrophoresis is also reported.

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Macroamylasemia: Clinical and laboratory features in 7 patients

Zeze¹,

Nakamura²,

Yoshimori³

et al. 1975

Gastroenterol Jpn

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Immunological and electrophoretical approaches to macroamylase analysis

Harada¹,

Nakayama²,

Kitamura

et al. 1975

Clinica Chimica Acta

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A Case of Macroamylasemia With Respiratory and Urinary Tract Infection

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Macroamylasemia: Clinical and laboratory features in 7 patients

Macroamylasemia: Clinical and laboratory features in 7 patients

Immunological and electrophoretical approaches to macroamylase analysis

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