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Protein-losing enteropathy
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Etiology
Mucosal disease with ulceration
- Chronic gastric ulcer
- Gastric carcinoma
- Lymphoma
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Idiopathic ulcerative jejunoileitis
- 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
- 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
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Etiology
Mucosal disease with ulceration
- Chronic gastric ulcer
- Gastric carcinoma
- Lymphoma
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Idiopathic ulcerative jejunoileitis
- 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
- 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
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Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Protein-losing Enteropathy." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. 5-Minute Clinical Consult, www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114493/all/Protein_losing_enteropathy.
Zeiger RFR. Protein-losing enteropathy. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114493/all/Protein_losing_enteropathy. Accessed March 21, 2023.
Zeiger, R. F. (2015). Protein-losing enteropathy. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114493/all/Protein_losing_enteropathy
Zeiger RFR. Protein-losing Enteropathy [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. [cited 2023 March 21]. Available from: https://www.unboundmedicine.com/5minute/view/Diagnosaurus/114493/all/Protein_losing_enteropathy.
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