The Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption Syndrome in a 23-Year-Old Woman

A Case Report of Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption in Iranian Child

Introduction Glucose-Galactose Malabsorption (GGM) is an autosomal recessive and rare disorder of intestinal transport of glucose and sodium-glucose cotransporter type (SGLT1). Case Report Our patient is a 32-day-old boy who was examined for severe diarrhea and acidosis and was treated with GGMdiagnosis. A number of laboratory tests were performed on this patient as well as positive test for r...

Congenital glucose galactose malabsorption.

Introduction Congenital glucose galactose malabsorption (CGGM) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, which presents as a protracted diarrhoea in early neonatal life. It is due to a defect in sodium coupled transport of glucose and galac­ tose in the enterocyte (1). Diarrhoea in CGGM is osmotic, caused by accumulation of unabsorbed glucose and ga­ lactose in the intestine (2), which results in...

Glucose-galactose malabsorption.

Progressive ataxia, focal seizures, and malabsorption syndrome in a 41 year old woman.

Received 27 September 1995 Accepted 4 October 1995 Case presentation The patient was a right handed woman, born in 1952 and married. She was a radio taxi controller. In October 1993 she presented to her local district general hospital having had two short lived episodes of involuntary twitching of the left side of her face and then a third episode of left sided facial twitching which was follow...

Progressive ataxia , focal seizures , and malabsorption syndrome in a 41 year old woman Colin

Received 27 September 1995 Accepted 4 October 1995 Case presentation The patient was a right handed woman, born in 1952 and married. She was a radio taxi controller. In October 1993 she presented to her local district general hospital having had two short lived episodes of involuntary twitching of the left side of her face and then a third episode of left sided facial twitching which was follow...