AboutNeha Dahiya MD Expertise I can help patients understand their lab report results, help them with queries regarding what pretest preparation is required. How often a follow up test needs to be done. What does a particular tissue biopsy report mean in everyday English. I can explain the biopsy or cytology procedure. I can deal with Histopathology / cytology / clinical pathology and clinical chemistry queries. Helping in this manner will be my contribution to the community.
Experience I am a pathologist and director of clinical laboratory services. I have been a practicing pathologist for last 9 years in a 350 bed multi specialty hospital laboratory.
Organizations Indian association of pathologists and microbiologists.
MIAC - Member International Academy of Cytology
International association of Pathologists - indian division
Indian association of Cytology
Question I am a 56 year old female I have started 2 weeks ago with some nausea and bloating and with past history of diverticulosis, went to family doctor(my primary care regular Dr was not in saw a partner) who did not run lab at that time, just started me on antibiotics, a week later I was not better so went in for lab, my regular doctor ran lab, by this time, pain was localized in upper right quadrant, radiating to back, and occasionally sharp, but no vomiting, low grade temp (occasional), labs came back with amylase 61, wbc 13.9, and lipase 308.9, other than this lab I have not have any other test run. I am currently taking a second round of antibiotic, and concerned with wbc elevated. I also thought if I have pancreatitis both the amylase and the lipase would be elevated.
Could I be recovering from pancreatitis due to the antibiotic treatment?
Answer Hello Christine:
I apologize for the delay in answering, due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to attend to your question.
yes it is possible that you may have had a bout of pancreatitis. However since there are no baseline (first time around) levels of amylase its difficult to say how the progress is of the disease.
