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Wernicke encephalopathy after sleeve gastrectomy
Ожирение и метаболизм, 2023 The article describes the case of a patient with Wernicke encephalopathy, which developed 3 months after the sleeve gastrectomy. An MRI of the brain was performed to verify the diagnosis, which revealed a symmetrical non-uniform increase in the MR signal
A. E. Neimark +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 During the last two decades, a large body of information on the events responsible for intestinal fat digestion and absorption has been accumulated. In particular, many groups have extensively focused on the absorptive phase in order to highlight the ...
Emile Levy +5 more
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Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2021 SUMMARY Treatment-refractory hypothyroidism is a common clinical finding. Substantial causes include poor compliance and intake failure as well as gastrointestinal diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and short bowel syndromes.
Albert Topf +7 more
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Bilateral Corneal Ulceration Caused by Vitamin A Deficiency in Eosinophilic Gastroenteropathy
Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2011 Purpose: Vitamin A deficiency is a very rare condition in the developed world and can lead to a variety of ocular changes from xerosis and xerophthalmia to corneal ulcer and perforation. The treatment of this devastating disease is simple and inexpensive.
Alex P. Lange +4 more
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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia as Presentation of Celiac Disease
مجلة الكوفة الطبية, 2022 Celiac disease is a multisystem disorder in children and adults; it is considered as one of the most important malabsorption syndromes related to an auto-immune mediated response to gluten-containing food in a genetically predisposed patient.
Ahmed Abdul Hadi Mohsen +3 more
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Whipple's disease: rare disorder and late diagnosis
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2012 Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disorder caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. We report the case of a 61-year-old male patient who presented to emergency room complaining of asthenia, arthralgia, anorexia, articular complaints ...
Viviane Plasse Renon +5 more
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Malabsorption Syndrome due to Intestinal Amyloidosis as Presentation of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2020 Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 3% of adult malignancies. Designated in the literature as “the great masquerader,” the great diversity of clinical manifestations is associated with the several paraneoplastic syndromes that potentially ...
Filipe Bessa +8 more
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Giardia intestinalis - atypical symptoms of infection in the daily practice of various specialists
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023 Giardia intestinalis infection is the most common parasitic infection in the world. The parasite's reservoir is mainly humans and many species of mammals. Giardiasis is a parasitic disease of the duodenum and small intestine.
Joanna Olszak +9 more
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A Case of Failure to Thrive- Investigation Beyond a Positive Sweat Test
Çocuk Dergisi, 2021 Failure to thrive represents a difficult entity to define and can be associated with several diseases. Therefore, combining all the data (family history, perinatal and infancy information) with the physical examination and laboratory findings is a ...
Sara Maria Mosca Ferreira Da Silva +5 more
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