Normal Small Bowel

Small bowel review: Normal physiology, part 2.

In the past year there have been many advances in the area of small bowel physiology and pathology and therapy. In preparation for this review, over 1500 papers were assessed. The focus is on presenting clinically useful information for the practising gastroenterologist. Selected important clinical learning points include the following: (1) glucose absorption mediated by SGLT1 is controlled by ...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Alkaline phosphatase levels in normal and diseased small bowel.

Since the introduction of peroral biopsy of the small intestine (Shiner, 1956; Crosby and Kugler, 1957) there has been growing interest in intestinal enzymes as well as morphology. The disaccharidases have received most attention, but many other enzymes, including alkaline phosphatase, are present in the small intestinal mucosa. There are few reports on human intestinal alkaline phosphatase and...

Normal small bowel biopsy followed by coeliac disease.

We report four patients (two children, one adolescent, and one adult) having normal small bowel mucosa shown on a biopsy specimen taken before the initial diagnosis of coeliac disease was made. The first biopsy was undertaken in two cases because of suspected malabsorption, in the third because of suspected dermatitis herpetiformis, and in the fourth as part of a coeliac disease family study. A...

small bowel pigmentation

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