5-Minute Clinical Consult : Protein-losing enteropathy

Diagnosaurus 2.0

Protein-losing enteropathy

Etiology

Mucosal disease with ulceration

Chronic gastric ulcer
Gastric carcinoma
Lymphoma
Inflammatory bowel disease
Idiopathic ulcerative jejunoileitis

Lymphatic obstruction

Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia
Secondary obstruction: cardiac disease (constrictive pericarditis, congestive heart failure), infection (tuberculosis, Whipple’s disease), neoplasm (lymphoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma), retroperitoneal fibrosis, sarcoidosis

Idiopathic mucosal transudation

Ménétrier’s disease (hypertrophic gastropathy)
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma)
Viral gastroenteritis
Celiac sprue
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
Allergic protein-losing enteropathy
Parasites, eg, giardiasis, hookworm
Amyloidosis
Common variable immunodeficiency
Systemic lupus erythematosus

Protein-losing enteropathy has been found in Diagnosaurus 2.0

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