ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2006
Tropical malabsorption.
Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of rifaximin, a nonabsorbable antibiotic, in the treatment of tropical enteropathy.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2009Trial
- Biomarker relationships with small bowel histopathology among malnourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction in a multicountry cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
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- Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Mother's Hygiene Practice as Stunting Risk Factors: A Case Control Study in a Rural Area of Ciawi Sub-district, Tasikmalaya District, West Java, Indonesia.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2023Article
- Citrulline and kynurenine to tryptophan ratio: potential EED (environmental enteric dysfunction) biomarkers in acute watery diarrhea among children in Bangladesh.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Malnutrition and Gut Microbiota in Children.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Modeling undernutrition with enteropathy in mice.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition (SEEM) in Pakistan: protocols for biopsy based biomarker discovery and validation.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Assessment of Machine Learning Detection of Environmental Enteropathy and Celiac Disease in Children.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- A prospective study on incidence, risk factors, and validation of a risk score for post-infection irritable bowel syndrome in coastal eastern India.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2019Article
- What makes non-cirrhotic portal hypertension a common disease in India? Analysis for environmental factors.The Indian journal of medical research · 2019Review
- Environmental enteric dysfunction and child stunting.Nutrition reviews · 2019Review
- Pathobiome driven gut inflammation in Pakistani children with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction.PloS one · 2019Article
- Environmental Enteropathy in Undernourished Pakistani Children: Clinical and Histomorphometric Analyses.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2018Article
- High SMAD7 and p-SMAD2,3 expression is associated with environmental enteropathy in children.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Clinical and Histologic Mimickers of Celiac Disease.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2017Review
- Host-related factors explaining interindividual variability of carotenoid bioavailability and tissue concentrations in humans.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2017Review
- Spectrum of chronic small bowel diarrhea with malabsorption in Indian subcontinent: is the trend really changing?Intestinal research · 2016Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Malabsorption is an important clinical problem both in visitors to the tropics and in native residents of tropical countries. Infections of the small intestine are the most important cause of tropical malabsorption. Protozoal infections cause malabsorption in immunocompetent hosts, but do so more commonly in the setting of immune deficiency. Helminth infections occasionally cause malabsorption or protein-losing enteropathy. Intestinal tuberculosis, chronic pancreatitis and small-bowel bacterial overgrowth are important causes of tropical malabsorption. In recent years, inflammatory bowel disease and coeliac disease have become major causes of malabsorption in the tropics. Sporadic tropical sprue is still an important cause of malabsorption in adults and in children in South Asia. Investigations to exclude specific infective, immunological or inflammatory causes are important before considering tropical sprue as a diagnosis. This article briefly reviews the management of tropical sprue and presents an algorithm for its investigation and management.
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