Protein-losing enteropathy

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• Synonyms

  • Protein losing enteropathy

• Causes

  • Crohn's disease
  • Coeliac disease
  • Whipple's disease
  • Gastric adenocarcinoma
  • Pseudomembranous colitis
  • Intestinal lymphangiectasia
  • Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome
  • Systemic amyloidosis
  • Graft versus host disease
  • Gastrointestinal lymphoma
  • Right ventricular failure
  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  • Menetrier disease
  • Miliary tuberculosis
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis

• Effects

  • Hypoalbuminaemia
  • Raised alpha-2 globulin
  • Hypogammaglobulinaemia

• Parents

  • Gastrointestinal pathology

• Treatments

  • Human albumin solution

• Description

  • "Ix with IV radiolabelled albumin
  • or stool alpha-1-antitrypsin"