Medical and Surgical Conditions of Malabsorption

Medical and Surgical Conditions for the Treatment of Malabsorption

Question 1: In daily clinical usage the terms maldigestion, malabsorption, and malassimilation are not always clearly separated. What are the exact definitions as a basis for understanding as well as regarding reasonable differential diagnostics? Dietrich: Malassimilation is the umbrella term for a deficit of nutrients and includes maldigestion (failure of enzymatic intraluminal extraction of c...

The Surgical Pathology of Malabsorption

All too often endoscopic biopsies of the small bowel to rule out malabsorption are taken from the two worst places to evaluate villous architecture, either the duodenal bulb or the terminal ileum. Although both sites are the easiest for endoscopists to biopsy, they are the least reliable in terms of evaluating small bowel architecture. In a perfect world, only distal duodenal or proximal jejuna...

Massage and Remedial Exercises in Medical and Surgical Conditions

Massage and Remedial Exercises in Medical and Surgical Conditions

Medical and Surgical Treatment of Munir\'s Disease

This article was presented by the author at the Vertigo Seminar of the Medical School of Iran National University in December.