Diagnostic dilemma in diagnosing rare cause of protein losing enteropathy: Waldmann's disease

Waldmann's disease, or primary intestinal lymphangiectasia, is an unusual cause of protein‐losing enteropathy primarily characterized by lymphopenia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. However, variable clinical presentations result dilemmas in diagnosis and effective management. We pr...

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Autores principales: Prajapati, Sarita, Bohara, Sujan, Mainali, Gaurab, Karki, Samikshya, Thapa, Sharan, Aryal, Nirjala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9211774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5992
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author Prajapati, Sarita
Bohara, Sujan
Mainali, Gaurab
Karki, Samikshya
Thapa, Sharan
Aryal, Nirjala
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description Waldmann's disease, or primary intestinal lymphangiectasia, is an unusual cause of protein‐losing enteropathy primarily characterized by lymphopenia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. However, variable clinical presentations result dilemmas in diagnosis and effective management. We present a toddler diagnosed with Waldmann's disease managed with a high‐protein diet and medium‐chain triglyceride supplementation.
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spelling pubmed-92117742022-06-28 Diagnostic dilemma in diagnosing rare cause of protein losing enteropathy: Waldmann's disease Prajapati, Sarita Bohara, Sujan Mainali, Gaurab Karki, Samikshya Thapa, Sharan Aryal, Nirjala Clin Case Rep Case Reports Waldmann's disease, or primary intestinal lymphangiectasia, is an unusual cause of protein‐losing enteropathy primarily characterized by lymphopenia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypogammaglobulinemia. However, variable clinical presentations result dilemmas in diagnosis and effective management. We present a toddler diagnosed with Waldmann's disease managed with a high‐protein diet and medium‐chain triglyceride supplementation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9211774/ /pubmed/35769238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5992 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9211774/
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