Infectious etiology and indicators of malabsorption or intestinal injury in childhood diarrhea.

Adson Santos Martins Samara Alves Santos Cláudia Alves da Silva Lisboa Tânia Fraga Barros Tereza Cristina Medrado Ribeiro Hugo da Costa-Ribeiro Júnior Ângela Peixoto de Mattos Patrícia Silva de Almeida Mendes Carlos Maurício Cardeal Mendes Edna Lúcia Santos de Souza Ana Lúcia Moreno Amor Neci Matos Soares Márcia Cristina Aquino Teixeira

Published 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.

Keyphrases

irritable bowel syndrome
early life
clostridium difficile
young adults
childhood cancer
adipose tissue
high resolution
early onset
fatty acid
mass spectrometry