Intestinal amyloidosis presenting as malabsorption syndrome.
Intestinal amyloidosis presenting with small bowel diarrhoea with malabsorption is an infrequent clinical entity. The present case report includes such a case and discusses the diagnostic approach in such a case.
Mishra
Peeyush
P
Department of Gastroenterology, LTM Medical College, Sion, Mumbai.
Alexander
Jacob
J
Desai
Nutan
N
Dongre
Lalit
L
Amarapurkar
Anjali
A
Paladugu
Hari Krishna
HK
Sawant
Prabha
P
D000328:Adult; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008286:Malabsorption Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*