Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Malassimilation
Introduction
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
Editor-In-Chief: Template:Search infobox C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]