The effects and treatment of malabsorption in childhood will obviously vary according to the nature and severity of the underlying cause, and the age of the child. This paper describes briefly the general nutritional effects with particular reference to coeliac disease, which is one of the most common causesof malabsorption in Western countries (Anderson, 1966), and discusses some of the types ...

A variable proportion of patients with hookworm disease have functional and structural changes of the small bowel leading to the clinical features of malabsorption and nutritional deficiencies (Sheehy, Meroney, Cox, and Soler, 1962; Salem and Truelove, 1964; Chaudhuri and Saha, 1964; Tandon, Das, Saraya, and Deo, 1966a; Burman, 1966; Chuttani, Puri, and Misra, 1967). This observation has great ...

Small bowel lymphomas of the extranodal type occur in the young and are characteristically associated with malabsorption syndrome. We present the case of an elderly in whom there was no malabsorption and the duodenal tumor was a gastric type marginal zone B cell lymphoma also known as gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. A 73-year-old woman presented to the emergency room ...

as the incidence of obesity increases, less invasive weight loss methods rather than bariatric surgery will be needed. this article reviews the advances in endoscopy, results, benefits and side effects of these techniques for treating obesity. the endoscopic options for weight loss could be broadly grouped under the following categories: restriction procedures, malabsorption procedures, and neu...

Résumé La maladie cœliaque (MC) représente une maladie auto immune touchant plusieurs organes. Elle est souvent révélée par des manifestations digestives avec une malabsorption biologique. Cependant, l’atteinte des séreuses peut exceptionnellement révéler cette entéropathie rendant le diagnostic difficile. Il s’agit du patient JA âgé de 63 ans admis pour exploration de syndrome de malabsorption...

Cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency is particularly common in the elderly (>65 years of age) but is often unrecognized because its clinical manifestations are subtle; however, they are also potentially serious, particularly from a neuropsychiatric and hematological perspective. In the elderly, the main causes of cobalamin deficiency are pernicious anemia and food-cobalamin malabsorption. Food-co...

Five patients with sucrase-isomaltase deficiency, and one patient with primary glucose-galactose malabsorption had no increases in breath hydrogen excretion after oral sucrose or glucose. Anaerobic incubation with sugars of stool suspensions from 5 patients with primary sugar malabsorption produced by trace of hydrogen (17 microliter) in only one, while those from 13 or 14 controls produced a m...

Human serum albumin has been successfully labelled with tritium. It is considerably denatured in the process and has a shorter half life when given intravenously than (131)I-labelled albumin. Nevertheless it is satisfactory for absorption studies, although not for turnover observations. These studies on absorption in control subjects and in patients with intestinal malabsorption indicate that t...

Iron malabsorption compounded the anemia in a patient with diffuse large cell lymphoma involving the small intestine. Both upper gastrointestinal series with small bowel follow-through and computerized tomographic scan demonstrated lymphomatous involvement of the duodenum and proximal jejunum by a retroperitoneal mass. An oral iron-loading absorption test was consistent with malabsorption of ir...

The SeHCAT test was used to investigate possible bile acid malabsorption in 166 patients presenting to a district general hospital with chronic diarrhoea of uncertain cause. Eighty-four (51%) patients had impaired SeHCAT retention. These included 23 of 28 patients with a possible type I abnormality (terminal ileal resection or disease, previous pelvic radiotherapy), 20 of 74 with a possible typ...