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Tropical enteropathy in Rhodesia.
Tropical enteropathy, which may be related to tropical sprue, has been described in many developing countries including parts of Africa. The jejunal changes of enteropathy are seen in Rhodesians of all social and racial categories. Xylose excretion, however, is related to socioeconomic status, but not race. Upper socioeconomic Africans and Europeans excrete significantly more xylose than lower ...
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Of the 555 million preschool children in developing countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are underweight. Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children younger than 5 years of age and leads to long-term cognitive defi cits, poorer performance in school and fewer years of completed schooling, and lower adult economic productivity. Child underweight state or stunting m...
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Steatorrhoea has been found in a large proportion of patients with inflammatory dermatoses, especially eczema and psoriasis. It is due to the rash itself and disappears rapidly after topical treatment of the skin. This particular enteropathy, unlike that associated with dermatitis herpetiformis, is not accompanied by an alteration in the stereomicroscopic appearance of the small bowel mucosa. T...
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Involvement of the hollow organs of the digestive apparatus can occur in patients in the chronic phase of Chagas' disease. The basic mechanism is destruction of neurons of the enteric nervous system. Whereas megaesophagus and megacolon are the most notable and most extensively studied expressions of the digestive form of Chagas' disease, involvement of the small intestine (Chagasic enteropathy)...
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Celiac disease is an immune-mediated small intestinal mucosal disorder with characteristic, but nonspecific histopathological changes. A number of heterogeneous disorders may produce similar changes in small bowel biopsies, but these fail to respond to a gluten-free diet. Recently, it has become increasingly appreciated that different medications may cause this sprue-like intestinal disease, in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Gastroenterology
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0016-5085
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-5085(73)80137-4