• Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2021

    Serum Amylase and Lipase for the Prediction of Pancreatic Injury in Critically Ill Children Admitted to the PICU.

    • Pingping Liu, Zhenghui Xiao, Haipeng Yan, Xiulan Lu, Xinping Zhang, Lan Luo, Caixia Long, and Yimin Zhu.
    • Department of Emergency, Key Laboratory of Pediatric Emergency Medicine of Hunan Province, Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
    • Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2021 Jan 1; 22 (1): e10-e18.

    ObjectivesPancreatic injury is multifactorial and potentially devastating for critically ill children. We aimed to evaluate whether serum amylase and lipase among critically ill children could serve as an independent biomarker to predict pancreatic injury.DesignRetrospective cohort.SettingPICU of a tertiary, pediatric medical center.PatientsSeventy-nine autopsies.InterventionsNone.Measurements And Main ResultsA group of 79 children who died of different causes were investigated by autopsy. They were divided into pancreatic injury group and pancreatic noninjury group according to autopsy findings. Data based on patients' demographics, vital signs, laboratory findings, and clinical features at admission were collected and compared. Logistic regression was used to identify predictive factors for pancreatic injury. Receiver operating characteristic curve was constructed for assessing serum amylase and serum lipase to predicting pancreatic injury. Forty-one patients (51.9%) exhibited the pathologic changes of pancreatic injury. The levels of lactate, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, and troponin-I in the injury group were significantly higher than that in the noninjury group, whereas the level of calcium was significantly lower than that in the noninjury group (p < 0.05). Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that serum amylase, serum lipase, and septic shock were significantly associated with the occurrence rate of pancreatic injury. The statistically significant area under the curve results were as follows: serum amylase: area under the curve = 0.731, at a cutoff value of 97.5, sensitivity = 53.7, and specificity = 81.6; and serum lipase: area under the curve = 0.727, at a cutoff value of 61.1, sensitivity = 36.6, and specificity = 92.1.ConclusionsSerum amylase and lipase could serve as independent biomarkers to predict pancreatic injury in critically ill children.Copyright © 2020 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.

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