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Pancreatitis

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Do You Need Additional Testing to Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis?

The patient has the typical clinical presentation of a cute pancratitis, with acute onset epigastric pain. The next criteria is laboratory evidence. This patient has a serum lipase or amelis that's greater than are, equal to three times the upper limit of normal. And this brings up a good teaching point, which is that various hospitals have different reference ranges for their pancreatic ensyme.

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