hyperamylasemia

Etiology

• acute abdominal emergencies
  • acute pancreatitis
  • perforated peptic ulcer
  • acute cholecystitis
  • intestinal obstruction with incipient strangulation
  • intestinal ischemia, intestinal infarction
  • ruptured aortic aneurysm or dissection
  • ruptured ectopic pregnancy
  • acute salpingitis
  • torsion of ovarian cyst or carcinoma
  • abdominal trauma with hematoma formation
  • perforated diverticulitis
  • postgastrectomy afferent loop obstruction
  • Crohn's disease
• physiologic
  • pregnancy
  • salivary (S) hyperamylasemia
• protein-bound hyperamylasemia
  • inborn macroamylasemia: attachment to albumin or globulin
  • IgA-bound:
    • celiac disease
    • lymphoma
    • immunoproliferative small bowel disease
  • IgG-bound:
    • chronic infection
    • liver disease
  • immune complex-bound:
    • AIDS
    • connective tissue disease
    • Sjogren's disease
• decreased excretion of amylase
  • acute & chronic renal failure
• tumor-associated
  • cancer of the ovary
  • cancer of the lung
  • lymphoma
  • hematologic malignancy
  • radiation disease
• miscellaneous
  • salivary gland disease
    • mumps
    • tumor
    • parotitis
  • ketoacidosis, diabetic ketoacidosis
  • postictal state
  • anorexia nervosa
  • alcoholism
  • post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)

More general terms

• sign/symptom

Additional terms

• amylase
• amylase in serum/plasma
• amylase in urine
• macroamylasemia