Question 22 / 32:  A 25 year old woman with Crohn’s disease is taking azathioprine for maintenance therapy. She comes to the office complaining of 1 week of periumbilical abdominal pain. Amylase is 2,555 and lipase is 3,435. She is admitted to the hospital.

Which of the following tests are most important to follow during her hospitalization?

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Explanation:

Many patients with severe pancreatitis may develop hypocalcemia. The other blood tests are not as important as the calcium.

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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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