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The value of the amylase--creatinine clearance ratio (ACCR) in the diagnosis of postoperative pancreatitis was prospectively assessed. In 77 patients undergoing operations known to have a significant incidence of postoperative pancreatitis (gastric, biliary or pancreatic) i.e. "high risk" group, the ACCR was abnormally elevated postoperatively in 36 patients (47%). However, overt clinical pancreatitis occurred in only eight patients (10%). In 60 other patients undergoing nonabdominal operations (orthiipedic, head and neck, varicose vein surgery etc.) i.e. "low risk" group, the ACCR was abnormally elevated postoperatively in 23 patients (38%). No patient in this group developed clinical pancreatitis. We conclude, therefore, the ACCR is often abnormally elevated nonspecifically following any type of surgery, and cannot be used as evidence of postoperative pancreatitis. These data do suggest, however, that a normal ACCR, especially on successive daily determinations, might help to exclude the diagnosis of postoperative pancreatitis.
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PMID:Assessment of the amylase--creatinine clearance ratio in postoperative patients. 615 70

A 29-year-old woman admitted for alcohol detoxification five years after a 90% distal pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis had abdominal pain similar to that associated with preoperative pancreatitis. Although her clinical course was consistent with recurrent pancreatitis, the serum amylase level remained normal, but the amylase creatinine clearance ratio became elevated and then returned to normal, paralleling her clinical course. The ACCR may be a useful laboratory method in diagnosing chronic recurrent pancreatitis in patients with decreased functional pancreatic tissue.
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PMID:Elevated amylase creatinine clearance ratio and normal serum amylase levels in chronic relapsing pancreatitis after partial pancreatectomy. 616 Jun 21

Macroamylase is a circulating complex of immunoglobulin linked to normal amylase in most cases. Its physical properties are heterogeneous, but its large size impairs renal filtration. Macroamylasemia usually causes hyperamylasemia and an amylase clearance:creatinine clearance (C(AM):C(CR)) ratio of less than 1 percent. Macroamylasemia occurs in 2.5 percent of hyperamylasemic patients, and 1 percent of apparently healthy subjects with normal amylase levels. It often accompanies diseases of aberrant immunity or conditions in which pancreatitis must be ruled out. This disorder should be considered in a patient with asymptomatic hyperamylasemia because its detection can obviate a prolonged diagnostic workup. The condition requires no treatment and may be transient. Macroamylasemia is one of several immunoglobulin-complexed enzyme (ICE) disorders. MacroLDemia, an ICE disorder of lactate dehydrogenase (LD), shares features with macroamylasemia. These and other ICE disorders appear to represent nonspecific dysproteinemic responses to disease.
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PMID:Macroamylasemia and other immunoglobulin-complexed enzyme disorders. 616 78

Trypsin/creatinine clearance ratio--a recently proposed screening test for pancreatic cancer--was assessed in 45 subjects (17 control subjects, 15 patients with pancreatic cancer, and 13 with chronic pancreatitis). A statistically significant increase of the ratio was detected not only in pancreatic cancer, but also in chronic calcifying pancreatitis. Thus, the previously reported clinical usefulness of the test in pancreatic cancer diagnosis was not substantiated by the present data. Although not fully investigated as yet, reasons for an abnormal ratio are probably independent of the neoplastic or inflammatory nature of the pancreatic disease. Science renal enzyme excretion (alpha-glucosidase, gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase, leucine aminopeptidase) was not found to be invariably elevated when trypsin/creatinine clearance ratio was increased, tubular damage cannot be assumed as constituting the only reason for an altered clearance ratio.
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PMID:Role of trypsin/creatinine clearance ratio in the differential diagnosis of chronic pancreatic disease. 616 44

In 21 healthy volunteers the ratio of amylase clearance and creatinine clearance (Cam/Ccr) was determined in urine collected at admission, after a 1-hour collection period and after a 2-hour collection period. The normal values were 1.8 +/- 1.6%, 1.9 +/- 2% and 2.0 +/- 1.7% respectively. They were comparable with those published by others. The reproducibility of the method was acceptable (r = 0.62). When compared with serum amylase determinations, Cam/Ccr showed neither better sensitivity in 19 patients suffering an acute episode of proven pancreatitis, nor better specificity in 19 patients with acute abdomen but no evidence of pancreatitis.
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PMID:[Ratio of amylase clearance and creatinine clearance in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis]. 616 43

The incidence of unexplained pancreatitis in patients dying after cardiac operations has been recorded as 16%, with evidence to implicate ischemia in the pathogenesis of the pancreatitis. Increased amylase--to--creatinine clearance ratios (ACCR), suggesting pancreatic dysfunction, have been reported in patients following nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Pulsatile CPB is increasingly recognized to be a more physiological form of perfusion, particularly with respect to capillary blood flow. In this study the ACCR has been determined before, during, and after cardiac operations performed with both nonpulsatile and pulsatile CPB. Twenty patients undergoing elective cardiac operations were studied. Ten patients had nonpulsatile CPB (nonpulsatile group) and 10 had pulsatile CPB (pulsatile group). The two groups were comparable as regards perioperative variables and perfusion parameters. In both groups the ACCR was estimated preoperatively, on three occasions during the operation, and daily on the first 5 postoperative days. A significant elevation in ACCR was observed in nine of 10 patients in the nonpulsatile group but in only one of 10 patients in the pulsatile group (p less than 0.001). The significant improvement of ACCR stability following pulsatile CPB may indicate that this form of perfusion will reduce the risk of pancreatitis following cardiac operations performed with CPB.
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PMID:The amylase-creatinine clearance ratio following cardiopulmonary bypass. 616 15

It is often difficult to differentiate acute pancreatitis (A.P.) from some other acute abdominal diseases, when there is an elevated serum amylase. In contrast, the renal clearance of amylase, expressed as a percentage of creatinine clearance, can separate patients with A.P. from patients with acute colecistitis, common duct stone without pancreatitis, hyperamylasemia after biliary surgery, acute peptic ulcer and acute salivary diseases.
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PMID:[Correlation between hyperamylasemia and acute pancreatitis]. 616 97

We evaluated the efficacy of nasogastric suction for alcohol-related pancreatitis by performing a randomized, controlled study. Twenty-one patients with pancreatitis associated with alcohol ingestion received either nasogastric suction or nothing by mouth in addition to intravenous fluids and meperidine as needed. Twenty patients completed the treatment to which they were assigned. There were no statistically significant differences between the group that received nasogastric suction and the group that did not in duration of abdominal pain, anorexia, abdominal tenderness, ileus, presence of abdominal masses, or elevated serum amylase and lipase activities and the ratio of the renal clearance of amylase to creatinine; or the number of meperidine injections requested per subject. Patients receiving nasogastric suction complained of significantly longer duration of nausea and vomiting. We conclude that nasogastric suction is not effective in the treatment of uncomplicated alcoholic pancreatitis.
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PMID:An evaluation of the efficacy of nasogastric suction treatment in alcoholic pancreatitis. 616 98

It was felt that the apparent specificity of the amylase-to-creatine clearance ratio (ACCR) in several previous studies of pancreatitis might reflect a failure to utilize adequately ill control subjects. The ACCR and the renal clearances of beta 2-microglobulin (B2-m), similarly related to creatinine (BCCR) as well as the urinary concentration of albumin, were compared in 27 patients with acute pancreatitis, 8 with a perforated peptic ulcer and 7 with mild biliary colic, during the first 5 days in hospital. Acute pancreatitis was graded as mild (6), moderate (14) or severe (7), using a combination of clinical data, diagnostic peritoneal lavage and multiple criteria. Further assessment of the severity of the acute illness was obtained from measurement of C-reactive protein (C-RP). Lowest C-RP levels were found in the patients with mild pancreatitis and biliary colic, and highest levels in the patients with severe pancreatitis and perforated ulcer (P less than 0.002). Similarly, ACCR and BCCR levels were significantly lower in the two mild groups than in the two severe ones (P less than 0.01 and less than 0.002 respectively), although plasma amylase was raised only in patients with pancreatitis and plasma B2-m was similar in all groups. Electrophoresis of urine showed dense bands of tubuloprotein in patients from both severe groups. Urine albumin was higher in severe pancreatitis than in perforated ulcer (P less than 0.1), perhaps indicating a more specific glomerular lesion in pancreatitis. Thus a rise in amylase clearance appeared to be related to the severity of the acute illness, and may be a component of a non-specific tubuloproteinuria. In this study patients with a perforated peptic ulcer had increases in ACCR similar to those seen in patients with severe pancreatitis, and we are therefore doubtful whether ACCR has any role in the clinical diagnosis of pancreatic disease.
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PMID:The amylase-to-creatinine clearance ratio--a non-specific response to acute illness? 617 75

The study of a group of 151 patients confirms the diagnostic value of elevated ACCR in pancreatitis, it was positive in 89.4% of them, of the group, 30 were normal, 19 exhibited acute pancreatitis and 102 had various other pathologies. Serious pancreatitis has shown coincide with a long-lasting rise of ACCR, and its rise in the course of the disease was a sign of a new outburst of progressive necrosis. Total unreliability when abnormal creatinine clearance is present was ascertained. The possible mechanism of increase in ACCR has been considered also in connection with the study of the results obtained on a group of patients exhibiting renal insufficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding, acute colecystitis, vesicular lithiasis and obstructive jaundice.
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PMID:[Correlation of the clearance of amylase and creatinine in acute pancreatitis and other pathologies]. 617 47


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