Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases

Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) occurs when protein losses throughout the gastrointestinal (GI) tract exceed the liver’s ability to produce new protein. This is a rare presentation of Crohn's disease and few reported cases of PLE related to Crohn’s exist in the literature. We describe two pati...

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Autores principales: Samant, Samira, Lyon, Danielle R, Asmi, Nisar, Jha, Pinky
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8666099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912640
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19501
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description Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) occurs when protein losses throughout the gastrointestinal (GI) tract exceed the liver’s ability to produce new protein. This is a rare presentation of Crohn's disease and few reported cases of PLE related to Crohn’s exist in the literature. We describe two patients who presented with symptoms of PLE. After extensive diagnostic workup both were diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and managed with prednisone.
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spelling pubmed-86660992021-12-14 Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases Samant, Samira Lyon, Danielle R Asmi, Nisar Jha, Pinky Cureus Internal Medicine Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) occurs when protein losses throughout the gastrointestinal (GI) tract exceed the liver’s ability to produce new protein. This is a rare presentation of Crohn's disease and few reported cases of PLE related to Crohn’s exist in the literature. We describe two patients who presented with symptoms of PLE. After extensive diagnostic workup both were diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and managed with prednisone. Cureus 2021-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8666099/ /pubmed/34912640 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19501 Text en Copyright © 2021, Samant et al. https://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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Samant, Samira
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title Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases
title_full Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases
title_fullStr Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases
title_full_unstemmed Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases
title_short Protein-Losing Enteropathy in Crohn's Disease: Two Unusual Cases
title_sort protein-losing enteropathy in crohn's disease: two unusual cases
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8666099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912640
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19501
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