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macrolipasemia en · NOUN

Etymology

From macrolipase + -emia.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The presence of macrolipases in the blood; when clinically detected, macrolipasemia has usually produced hyperlipasemia because renal clearance does not handle the macromolecules of enzyme in the same way that it would handle normal-sized enzyme molecules.
   • We report the fourth case of simultaneous macroamylasemia and macrolipasemia. A 39-year-old woman had been treated for systemic lupus erythematosus from 1982 to 1993. She was found to have an unexplained increase in serum amylase and lipase activities since 1996. […] In the situation of atypical clinical features associated with hyperamylasemia and hyperlipasemia, the possibility of macroenzymes should be considered. 2000, Goto H, Wakui H, Komatsuda A, Imai H, Miura AB, Fujita K, “Simultaneous macroamylasemia and macrolipasemia in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus in remission”, in Internal Medicine, volume 39, number 12, →PMID, pages 1115–1118:

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