Neonatal enteropathies: defining the causes of protracted diarrhea of infancy.

Immune and Autoimmune Enteropathies

Autoimmune enteropathy characteristically presents in infancy with protracted diarrhea. Underlying disorders of immune function, including regulatory T cells, must be excluded. Treatment options include nutritional rehabilitation, immune suppression, and, in select cases, bone marrow transplant. Copyright © 2006 Nestec Ltd., Vevey/S. Karger AG, Basel

Enteropathies of Infancy

INTRODUCTION Acute diarrhea, in the industrialized world, is usually self-limited, infectious in nature, and rarely requires biopsy evaluation. Chronic diarrhea can cause failure to thrive, frequently results in intestinal biopsy and may require parenteral nutrition and other forms of therapy. Protracted diarrhea has replaced the older term “intractable diarrhea” in the GI literature and denote...

Assessment of chronic diarrhea in early infancy in Tehran Tertiary Care Center; Tehran-Iran

Introduction Chronic diarrhea of infancy is a heterogeneous syndrome that includes several diseases with different etiologies. The aim of this study was investigating chronic diarrhea, its etiologies, clinical features and outcomes in infancy.Materials and Methods Retrospective study investigating infants hospitalized in the gastroenterology department of Tehran tertiary care center.The main de...

The prevalence of coronavirus in fecal samples of neonatal calf diarrhea using electron microscopic examination

BACKGROUND:Neonatal calf diarrhea (NCD), also known ascalf scours, is caused by viruses, bacteria, and parasites.Coronavirus is one of the important causes of NCD syndrome.Electron microcopy has been used for demonstration of virusesin fecal samples of diarrheic calves since 1969. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence ofcoronavirus in fecal samples of neonatal calf di...

Protracted diarrhoea in infancy.