The relationship of serum amylase levels in acute organophosphorus poisoning with its clinical severity and outcome: a cross-sectional study.
Basudev SubediGopal Kumar YadavAmar RautNisha JoshiBal Krishna SubediNimesh JoshiRam Prasad NeupaneVed BhandariRamesh Kumar MaharjanRamesh Prasad AcharyaPublished in: Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) (2023)
The clinical severity of OP poisoning is directly related to serum amylase levels. Importantly, higher mean values of serum amylase levels were depicted in those participants with OP poisoning culminating to death. Thus, serum amylase level could be one of the easy measurable prognostic marker of OP poisonings.