Giardiasis following gastric surgery.
A patient is presented who developed acute life-threatening diarrhoea due to infestation with Giardia lamblia. We propose that the severity of the illness may have been related to hypochlorhydria following gastric surgery.
D000126:Achlorhydria / Q000150:complications*; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000150:complications*