The colon in kwashiorkor

The colon in kwashiorkor.

Redmond, A. 0. B., Kaschula, R. 0. C., Freeseman, C., and Hansen, J. D. L. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 470. The colon in kwashiorkor. The colon in kwashiorkor was investigated by means of rectal biopsy and sigmoidoscopy in 20 children, followed by barium enema in 10 of the children. The colon during the acute phase of the disease showed a surface epithelial atrophy, with infil...

The cornea in kwashiorkor

The resistance of the cornea to infection is lowered in Kwashiorkor. There is more morbidity of the cornea among children who have been malnourished. Thus among 1,000 well-nourished children examined, there were only 2 (0.2%) children with corneal opacity, whereas among 200 children who were being treated for Protein-Calorie Malnutrition 4 (2%) had corneal lesions. The Lowering of resistance of...

Kwashiorkor.

The jejunal mucosa in kwashiorkor.

The 'tissue paper' intestine of patients with severe kwashiorkor is well known to tropical pathologists and it is usually considered to involve all coats of the intestinal wall. However, histological study of the small gut mucosa in man has been very difficult until the advent of peroral biopsy (Shiner, 1956). This paper reports a series of 17 infants with kwashiorkor whose jejunal mucosa was s...

The erythrocyte membrane in kwashiorkor.

Abnormalities of lipid metabolism in kwashiorkor are well documented. In Uganda, as elsewhere, frequent findings are fatty infiltration of the liver and a reduction in the quantity of serum lipids (Schwarz & Dean, 1957). The concentrations of both the aand /I-lipoproteins are also reduced, the /3-lipoproteins possibly more so (Cravioto, De la Pena & Burgos, 1959; Monckeberg, 1968). Lipids, in p...