Edema is defi ned as abnormal accumulation of fl uid in the interstitium. Diff erential diagnosis of generalized edema is very broad. Most often, renal and cardiac causes lead to generalized edema. The potential gastrointestinal causes of edema are liver failure and protein losing enteropathy including celiac disease and protein malnutrition. Generalized edema is rarely an initial manifestation...

Cronkhite- Canada syndrome (CCS) considered as a rare and non-hereditary disorder. Gastrointestinal polyposis and diarrhea along with some extra signs and symptoms such as hypoproteinemia, and epidermal manifestations are recognized in this syndrome. The pathophysiology of this syndrome is not completely understood and it seems that inflammatory processes may be involved. We present a 50 year-o...

Most patients with lymphoma have a reduced serum albumin concentration, often despite adequate nutrition and without evident liver disease or urinary protein loss (1-6). The etiology of this hypoalbuminemia is not clear. Possible causes include dilutional hypoalbuminemia, decreased albumin synthesis, increased albumin catabolism within the body, or excessive loss of albumin from the body throug...

Chylous ascites occurring after abdominal surgery is rare. Despite being potentially critical, there is no definite treatment guideline because of its rarity. Here we present a case of massive chylous ascites occurring after rectal surgery which was successfully treated with an oral fat-free elemental diet (ED). A 67-year-old man underwent low anterior resection with para-aortic lymphadenectomy...

Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) is a rare complication of a variety of intestinal disorders characterized by an excessive loss of proteins into the gastrointestinal tract due to impaired integrity of the mucosa. The clinical presentation of patients with PLE is highly variable, depending upon the underlying cause, but mainly consists of edema due to hypoproteinemia. While considering PLE, othe...

BACKGROUND Snakebites are an emergency medical condition and require rapid treatment procedures in children. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to present an overview of the demographic characteristics, clinical presentations, laboratory findings, severity, and complications that developed in pediatric patients due to snakebites. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 151 children with snakebite were enr...

CONTEXT Pancreatic cancer is frequently complicated by malignancies in other organs. However, synchronous triple cancers including pancreatic cancer have been seldom reported in the English language literature. CASE REPORT We describe the rare case of a 77-year-old man with triple cancers of the pancreas, stomach, and cecum. Biopsies revealed that all three tumors were adenocarcinomas. The pa...

Background and Objectives: To evaluate malnutrition and chronic inflammation as risk factors for sarcopenia in elderly patients with hip fractures, as defined by the criteria of the Asian Working Group on Sarcopenia (AWGS). Methods and Study Design: A total of 327 elderly patients with hip fractures were enrolled in this retrospective observational study. The main outcome measure was the nutrit...

Dogs with sustained anemia and hypoproteinemia due to bleeding and a continuing low protein or protein-free diet with abundant iron will continue to produce much new hemoglobin and plasma protein for many weeks. The stimulus of double depletion (anemia and hypoproteinemia) leads to raiding of body and tissue protein to fill the demand for new hemoglobin and plasma protein. The blood proteins in...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes in preeclampsia (PE), according to the value of albumin. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preeclamptic women were retrospectively divided into mild hypoproteinemia (MHP, n = 220) and severe hypoproteinemia (SHP, n = 79) PE according to the value of albumin. The maternal and perinatal outcomes were evaluated in both groups. ...