This case highlights the importance of recognizing falsely low amylase and triglyceride levels in patients presenting with hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis.
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May alert clinicians to lab interference enabling therapy in hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis; hypothesis-generating case leaves open prospective validation.
Melnick et al. (2016) studied this question.
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