However, elevated chitotriosidase secretion in acute and chronic inflammatory disease conditions, including lysosomal storage diseases, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, tuberculosis, acute malaria (induced by Plasmodium falciparum) and granulomatous diseases have been reported; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study showing the role of chitotriosidase in AP patients [10,25–27]. Here, CHIT1 is linked to sarcoidosis.