Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report

We present the case of a 66-year-old man with no abdominal symptoms other than chronic refractory diarrhea. Other causes for diarrhea were excluded. The positive results of anti-SSA antibodies, Schirmer’s test, and the biopsy of minor salivary glands confirmed the diagnosis of Sjogren’s syndrome. Mo...

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Autores principales: Xu, Liling, Gui, Ming, Sun, Chuanzheng, Yau, Vicky, Sun, Chenyu, Qi, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Nutrition
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9941144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36824167
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1086967
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author Xu, Liling
Gui, Ming
Sun, Chuanzheng
Yau, Vicky
Sun, Chenyu
Qi, Jing
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Gui, Ming
Sun, Chuanzheng
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description We present the case of a 66-year-old man with no abdominal symptoms other than chronic refractory diarrhea. Other causes for diarrhea were excluded. The positive results of anti-SSA antibodies, Schirmer’s test, and the biopsy of minor salivary glands confirmed the diagnosis of Sjogren’s syndrome. Moreover, during the course of treatment, the patient developed refeeding syndrome. His diarrhea and nutrition resolved with initiation of glucocorticoids. This case highlights that chronic refractory diarrhea can be the chief complaint and most severe symptom in patients with Sjogren’s syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-99411442023-02-22 Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report Xu, Liling Gui, Ming Sun, Chuanzheng Yau, Vicky Sun, Chenyu Qi, Jing Front Nutr Nutrition We present the case of a 66-year-old man with no abdominal symptoms other than chronic refractory diarrhea. Other causes for diarrhea were excluded. The positive results of anti-SSA antibodies, Schirmer’s test, and the biopsy of minor salivary glands confirmed the diagnosis of Sjogren’s syndrome. Moreover, during the course of treatment, the patient developed refeeding syndrome. His diarrhea and nutrition resolved with initiation of glucocorticoids. This case highlights that chronic refractory diarrhea can be the chief complaint and most severe symptom in patients with Sjogren’s syndrome. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9941144/ /pubmed/36824167 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1086967 Text en Copyright © 2023 Xu, Gui, Sun, Yau, Sun and Qi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Nutrition
Xu, Liling
Gui, Ming
Sun, Chuanzheng
Yau, Vicky
Sun, Chenyu
Qi, Jing
Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title_full Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title_fullStr Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title_short Refractory diarrhea in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome: A case report
title_sort refractory diarrhea in a patient with sjogren’s syndrome: a case report
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9941144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36824167
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1086967
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