Tropical Sprue
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Tropical Sprue Presenting with Dementia
Celiac and Tropical Sprue are malabsorptive diseases with similar clinical manifestations and histological findings. While, Celiac sprue is a known cause of malabsorption in the Western world, Tropical sprue is relatively uncommon and often overlooked by the medical community. Misdiagnosis can result in delay of adequate treatment in a patient with Tropical Sprue. We present a patient with a Tr...
متن کاملA household epidemic of tropical sprue.
Tropical sprue has been described as occurring in both endemic and epidemic forms (Walters, 1947; Ayrey, 1948; Stefanini, 1948; Baker, 1957; Baker, Mathan, and Joseph, 1962). Bahr (1915) mentions 'sprue houses' where successive tenants were attacked with sprue, and records several cases occurring among members of one family. This paper presents epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data on a...
متن کاملHistological and functional study of gastric mucosa in tropical sprue.
In patients with tropical sprue studied both in Puerto Rico and South India, histological changes in gastric mucosa were noted in 67% and 90% of patients respectively (Floch, Thomassen, Cox, and Sheehy, 1963; Vaish, Sampathkumar, Jacob, and Baker, 1965). Besides histological abnormalities, a significant reduction in gastric acid output was also observed. However, these studies did not exclude t...
متن کاملThe Changing Clinical Picture of Tropical Sprue
Tropical sprue is an endemic condition in Puerto Rico, some Caribbean islands and Southeast Asia. It is characterized by diarrhea, poor appetite, weight loss and anemia. In recent years the incidence of tropical sprue has declined and the clinical picture is different. The supplementation of cereals and flours with folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects in the newborns and to decr...
متن کاملDysgammaglobulinaemia in tropical sprue.
Study of immunoglobulin levels in 16 Indian control subjects showed that, compared with a Danish control series, they had a significantly higher mean level of IgG, but not of IgA or IgM. By contrast, the IgG levels in eight patients with tropical sprue were decreased or low normal in six cases and raised in only one case. Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover stud...
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tropical countries in the last two centuries. Characterised by profuse diarrhoea, steatorrhoea, abdominal distension, mouth ulcers and weight loss, it is a malabsorption syndrome the aetiology of which has never been conclusively identified. The phrase “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (Winston Churchill)” applies very aptly to tropical sprue. During the period of European colonia...
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