Infectious etiology and indicators of malabsorption or intestinal injury in childhood diarrhea

CONCLUSIONS: Childhood diarrhea can lead to increasingly severe nutrient deficiencies. Steatorrhea is the hallmark of malabsorption, and a stool test, such as the acid steatocrit, can be routinely used as a laboratory tool for the semi-quantitative evaluation of fat malabsorption in diarrheic children.PMID:38648349 | DOI:10.7705/biomedica.6913

Source: Biomedica : Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Adson Santos Martins Samara Alves Santos Cl áudia Alves da Silva Lisboa T ânia Fraga Barros Tereza Cristina Medrado Ribeiro Hugo Da Costa-Ribeiro Ângela Peixoto de Mattos Patr ícia Silva de Almeida Mendes Carlos Maur ício Cardeal Mendes Edna L úcia Source Type: research