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How can you be told you don't have a true pancreatitis?but at the same time have all the symptoms,elevated lipase and be on 4th hospital stay for it?

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How elevated?: There are other causes of elevation or serum lipase, like intestinal obstruction. macrolipasemia, and renal failure. You should ask your doctors at the hospital for an explanation.

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Answered 11/28/2017

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