Infectious etiology and indicators of malabsorption or intestinal injury in childhood diarrhea.
Adson Santos MartinsSamara Alves SantosCláudia Alves da Silva LisboaTânia Fraga BarrosTereza Cristina Medrado RibeiroHugo da Costa-Ribeiro JúniorÂngela Peixoto de MattosPatrícia Silva de Almeida MendesCarlos Maurício Cardeal MendesEdna Lúcia Santos de SouzaAna Lúcia Moreno AmorNeci Matos SoaresMárcia Cristina Aquino TeixeiraPublished in: Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud (2024)
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.