Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia (PIL) is a rare disease of intestinal lymphatics presenting with hypoproteinemia, bilateral lower limb edema, ascites, and protein losing enteropathy. We report a series of 4 children from Chennai, India presenting with anasarca, recurrent diarrhea, hypoproteinemia and confirmatory features of PIL on endoscopy and histopathology.

Although there is unanimity of opinion that the nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria, hypoproteinemia, edema and hyperlipemia, there is considerably less agreement as to the mechanisms which result in these findings. It is now generally held that the proteinuria found in this disease is related directly to the renal lesion (1) and is not attributable to the excretion of abnormal p...

H YPOPROTEINEMIA occurs with greater frequency in patients with gastric cancer than in patients with other neoplasms or with benign lesions of the gastro-intestinal tract. This was noted earlier by various authors, and has been studied in this laboratory. Hypoproteinemia becomes more pronounced and resistant to therapy following surgical treatment for cancer of the stomach than following simila...

Case Presentation A 69-year-old man was admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital in December 1983, following referral from another hospital, for evaluation of hypoproteinemia, peripheral edema, and weakness. He was known to have type II diabetes when he underwent a gastroenterostomy and, later, a vagotomy, two-thirds gastrectomy, and gastroenterostomy in 1972 for peptic ulcer disease. His...

Dogs with sustained anemia and hypoproteinemia due to bleeding and a continuing low protein or protein-free diet with abundant iron are used to test the value of food proteins as contrasted with mixtures of pure amino acids. The stimulus of double depletion (anemia and hypoproteinemia) drives the body to use every source of protein and all protein-building materials with the utmost conservation...