Macroamylasaemia and hepatitis in a twelve-year-old boy

Macroamylasaemia was found in a 12-year-old boy with persistent, severe abdominal pain and mild hepatitis. No abnormality of the pancreatic or bile ducts was demonstrated. Both the symptoms and the biochemical abnormality of macroamylasaemia settled spontaneously over 10 months. Transient, asymptomatic macroamylasaemia was found in the boy's father.