Within the past year on the Third (Boston University) Surgical Service at the Boston City Hospital we have seen 2 cases of acute mechanical small-bowel obstruction with serum amylase values in the ...

Amylases are important enzymes that break down complex carbohydrates to simple sugar molecules. They are important for digesting food and allowing the body mobilize carbohydrates for metabolism.

A patient with persistent hyperamylasemia and a low renal clearance of amylase was found to have an abnormally large serum amylase (11S). This large amylase, as shown by preparative ...

IN a paper 1 on the determination of amylase activity in biological fluids, we suggested a temporary working ‘normal’ range of 9–35 of our units per 100 ml. of serum. This working range was derived ...