Prevalence of biliary acid malabsorption in patients with chronic diarrhoea of functional characteristics: a prospective study.

Virginia FloresHelena Martínez-LozanoFederico BighelliJavier OrcajoJavier García-LledóJuan Carlos Alonso-FartoLuis A Menchen

Published in: BMC gastroenterology (2021)

Bile acid malabsorption occurs in a high proportion of patients suffering from chronic diarrhoea with functional characteristics. Systematic investigation of bile acid malabsorption should be included in the diagnostic algorithms of patients with chronic watery diarrhoea in the routine clinical practice. Absence of response to cholestyramine does not rule out bile acid diarrhoea.

Keyphrases

irritable bowel syndrome
clinical practice
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
machine learning
chronic kidney disease
risk factors
prognostic factors
deep learning
patient reported