The effect of fat malabsorption on the absorption and renal excretion of dietary oxalate was studied in four patients with sprue and in two patients with dermatitis herpetiformis and sprue-like jejunal histology. Hyperoxaluria was present in all patients with sprue when fat malabsorption was severe. Urinary oxalate excretion decreased in two of the three patients with coeliac sprue when their f...

Intestinal malabsorption results from a wide variety of causes, which can most easily be organized into three groups. Maldigestion arises from problems with mixing or with digestive mediators, and includes post-gastrectomy patients and those with deficiencies of pancreatic or intestinal enzymes, or of bile salts. Mucosal and mural causes of malabsorption are abundant, and include gluten-sensiti...

Nutritional management of patients with intestinal failure often includes the use oligomeric formulas. Implementing formulas in surgical maldigestion or malabsorption could be a nutritional strategy to included clinical protocols. We aim generate knowledge from survey focused on effectiveness therapy Delphi methodology. Each statement that reached an agreement consensus among participants was d...