Malassimilation
Template:Search infobox Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Malassimilation is malabsorption and maldigestion syndrome with the common symptom of chronic diarrhea.
Differential Diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
Malabsorption
- Abetalipoproteinemia
- Adrenal failure
- Amyloidosis
- Angina intestinalis
- Behcet’s Disease
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Celiac Sprue
- Chronic intestinal infections and parasitosis
- Chronic mesenteric vascular insufficiency
- Collagen diseases with vasculitis
- Collagen-vascular diseases
- Congenital fructose malabsorption
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Crohn’s Disease
- Cystinuria
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diseases of the mesenteric vessels
- Drugs
- Enteroenteric fistula
- Eosinophilic enteritis
- Food allergy
- Gastroileostomy
- Gluten-sensitive enteropathy
- Hartnup Syndrome
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypogammaglobulinemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Immunodeficiency
- Infectious enteritis
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Intestinal lymphangiectasis
- Iron deficiency
- Jejunal bypass
- Lactase deficiency
- Lymphomas
- Malignant intestinal lymphomas and lymph node metastases
- Massive resection
- Mastocytosis
- Protein-losing enteropathy
- Psoriasis
- Radiation enteritis
- Retroperitoneal malignancy
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Severe right ventricular failure
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Tropical sprue
- Vasculitis
- Verner-Morrison Syndrome
- Whipple’s Disease
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
Maldigestion
- Afferent Loop Syndrome
- Bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine in blind loop syndrome
- Cholestasis
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Crohn’s Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diverticulosis in the small intestine
- Drugs
- Fistula
- Ileal resection
- Obstructive jaundice
- Pancreatectomy
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Parenchymal liver diseases
- Steatorrhea after gastrectomy
- Stricture
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
Diagnosis
Diagnosis
Symptoms
- Anemia
- Massive feces
- Mucosa changes
- Muscle weakness
- Skin changes
- Weight loss
References
References
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