The development of "stagnant loop" syndrome following surgery for peptic ulcer disease.
Although gastric resection may cause a variety of functional gastrointestinal disorders, malabsorption is rare. When such a disturbance occurs other complicating factors are mostly involved. Two patients who developed a severe malabsorption after partial gastric resection are presented. They both had the prerequisites for intestinal stasis--one had small bowel diverticula and the other a "blind loop" after previous surgery. Their malabsorption was cured by surgical correction of stasis.
D000328:Adult; D001765:Blind Loop Syndrome; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology*; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000378:metabolism; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014805:Vitamin B 12 / Q000378:metabolism
D004041:Dietary Fats; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D014805:Vitamin B 12