Cystic fibrosis gastrointestinal disease includes nutrient malabsorption and intestinal inflammation. We show that the abundances of Escherichia coli in fecal microbiota were significantly higher in young children with cystic fibrosis than in controls and correlated with fecal measures of nutrient malabsorption and inflammation, suggesting that E. coli could contribute to cystic fibrosis gastro...

A patient presented with chorea and a recent history of Crohn's disease. Investigation revealed the cause of the chorea to be hypocalcaemia secondary to malabsorption. So far as is known there has been no previous report of hypocalcaemic chorea due to malabsorption.

For the assessment of fat malabsorption, the standard method of measuring faecal fat excretion using a 5 day stool collection has been compared with the alternative methods: stool microscopy, a lipid tolerance test and a continuous marker technique for the estimation of fat content on a single stool sample. The lipid test, using an emulsion of arachis oil (Prosparol), was less reliable than had...

A woman with the burning-feet syndrome was found on investigation to have malabsorption. The syndrome responded rapidly to intramuscular injections of 6 mg. of riboflavine daily. It is suggested that deficiency of this substance, due to malabsorption and aggravated by a defective diet and repeated pregnancies, was responsible for the syndrome in this case.

EDITORIAL, COMMENT The study of malabsorption in Uganda, East Africa, has revealed that the majority of patients who have steatorrhoea suffer from exocrine pancreatic disorders. The differing incidence of malabsorption syndromes in a hospital community in Kampala, Uganda, has been compared with the incidence in both temperate and tropical climates and the clinical and laboratory features of thi...

Keeling, J. W., and Harries, J. T. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 350. Intestinal malabsorption in infants with histiocytosis X. An infant with histiocytosis X had unequivocal evidence of intestinal malabsorption which was associated with histiocytic infiltration of the small intestine. 11 other fatal cases where histological material from the gastrointestinal tract was available...

celiac disease (cd) is a rare malabsorption syndrome mainly occurring in childhood which is now recognized as the most common food intolerance disease in the world. cd is associated with a wide spectrum of extra intestinal manifestations. neurological involvements of cd were first attributed to malabsorption due to changes in the mucosal architecture of the small intestine. neurological manifes...