McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Chronic Diarrhea

Diarrhea is the principal cause of the majority of healthcare utilization. When diarrhea lasts longer than four weeks, it is considered chronic diarrhea. There are several causes of chronic diarrhea, but here we focus on one of the rare causes, known as McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome (MWS). We here pr...

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Autores principales: Jyala, Abhilasha, Mehershahi, Shehriyar, Shah, Niel, Shaikh, Danial H, Patel, Harish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7956013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33732563
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13308
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author Jyala, Abhilasha
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Patel, Harish
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description Diarrhea is the principal cause of the majority of healthcare utilization. When diarrhea lasts longer than four weeks, it is considered chronic diarrhea. There are several causes of chronic diarrhea, but here we focus on one of the rare causes, known as McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome (MWS). We here present the case of a patient in his seventies with chronic diarrhea, found to have tubulovillous adenoma and diagnosed with McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome. We also discuss the clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and management of MWS.
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spelling pubmed-79560132021-03-16 McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Chronic Diarrhea Jyala, Abhilasha Mehershahi, Shehriyar Shah, Niel Shaikh, Danial H Patel, Harish Cureus Gastroenterology Diarrhea is the principal cause of the majority of healthcare utilization. When diarrhea lasts longer than four weeks, it is considered chronic diarrhea. There are several causes of chronic diarrhea, but here we focus on one of the rare causes, known as McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome (MWS). We here present the case of a patient in his seventies with chronic diarrhea, found to have tubulovillous adenoma and diagnosed with McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome. We also discuss the clinical presentation, pathophysiology, and management of MWS. Cureus 2021-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7956013/ /pubmed/33732563 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13308 Text en Copyright © 2021, Jyala et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jyala, Abhilasha
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title_fullStr McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Chronic Diarrhea
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