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Demystifying Carbohydrate Maldigestion: A Clinical Review

American Journal of Gastroenterology
Carbohydrate intolerance is a poorly understood and potentially overlooked cause of unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly among patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction. Symptoms related to carbohydrate intolerance arise from bacterial fermentation of unabsorbed carbohydrates leading to increased gases and osmotic load within the ...
Brooks D. Cash   +2 more
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The effect of cimetidine on maldigestion in cystic fibrosis

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1979
Ten patients (6 to 27 years of age) who had severe pancreatic exocrine insufficiency due to cystic fibrosis were studied to determine whether cimetidine would improve dietary fat and nitrogen absorption. When a constant diet was consumed and oral pancreatic enzymes were administered, the addition of cimetidine (150 or 200 mg taken orally one-half hour ...
K L, Cox   +3 more
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Lactose Maldigestion in Breast‐Feeding Gambian Infants

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 1997
Background:The ability of breast‐feeding infants to utilize lactose, the major carbohydrate in breast‐milk, is dependent on the presence of the enzyme lactase (E.C.3.2.1.108). Lactase is located in the brush border of the small intestine and because of its exposed position it is extremely vulnerable to pathogenic damage. Breast‐fed Gambian infants have
C A, Northrop-Clewes   +2 more
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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a dog with a maldigestion syndrome

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1985
Maldigestion caused by a pancreatic enzyme insufficiency was diagnosed in a 10-year-old Scottish Terrier on the basis of clinical signs and gastrointestinal function test results. The histologic diagnosis was pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Maldigestion is an unusual manifestation of this malignancy, particularly in the absence of other clinical signs ...
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Chronic pancreatitis and maldigestion.

Seminars in gastrointestinal disease, 2003
Patients with chronic pancreatitis may suffer from maldigestion and malnutrition. Longstanding inflammation and fibrosis in the gland can destroy exocrine tissue, leading to inadequate delivery of digestive enzymes to the duodenum in the prandial and postprandial period and subsequent maldigestion.
John M, Petersen, Chris E, Forsmark
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Diagnosis of Fat Maldigestion and Malabsorption

1976
I have taken as my remit the position of a clinician who has to confirm the diagnosis of maldigestion or malabsorption in patients with clinical problems suggestive of malassimilation of fat.
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Digestion, maldigestion, and the gastrointestinal hormones

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1971
V L, Go, W H, Summerskill
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[Pancreatic maldigestion and malabsorption].

Ceskoslovenska gastroenterologie a vyziva, 1983
Pancreatic maldigestion is due to decreased intraluminal hydrolysis of foodstuffs which is the consequence of lowered concentration of pancreatic enzymes. This if caused by insufficient secretion, absent activation or increased inactivation so pancreatic enzymes in the intestinal lumen.
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