Lankisch P G, Niederstadt H, Redlin-Kress E, Mahlke R, Brand A
Department of Internal Medicine, Municipal Hospital of Lüneburg, Germany.
Pancreas. 1993 Jan;8(1):123-6.
Hyperamylasemia has been reported in heroin addicts and ascribed to an increase of salivary isoamylase. Ours is the first report on acute pancreatitis in a heroin user. All prognostic parameters indicating a severe course of the disease were present, and computed tomography showed an edematous pancreatitis, but the acute pancreatitis took a benign clinical course.