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A 48-year-old female named Ms. Burton looks, overweight, pale, and sweating reported about clinical complain of abdominal pain. Symptoms being 102 beats/min (beats per minute) heart rate, BP is 145/98 mm Hg (millimetres of mercury), and severe and steady pain, with few signs of jaundice with nausea and vomiting, she was also diagnosed with acute pancreatitis secondary to a gallstone. Also pain in epigastric region forwarding with the tip of the right shoulder. In medical history being reported for biliary colic and pain became persistence after having a meal as seven cheese pizza. It was seen that in the diagnosis of blood count for liver and pancreatic enzymes besides ultrasonography, gave the positive result for pancreatic amylase and lipase.
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