Tropical Sprue in Children

Tropical Sprue

Dysgammaglobulinaemia in tropical sprue.

Study of immunoglobulin levels in 16 Indian control subjects showed that, compared with a Danish control series, they had a significantly higher mean level of IgG, but not of IgA or IgM. By contrast, the IgG levels in eight patients with tropical sprue were decreased or low normal in six cases and raised in only one case. Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover stud...

of Tropical Diseases Tropical Sprue

One of the more mysterious and still rather poorly understood diseases seen in the tropical regions of the world is Tropical Sprue (TS). TS is a clinical syndrome with an unknown etiology typically characterized by an acquired chronic diarrheal illness, small bowel mucosal abnormalities and malabsorption resulting in nutritional deficiencies and weight loss [1]. These are vague symptoms which c...

Intrinsic factor in tropical sprue.

Criteria used to establish the diagnosis of tropical sprue were previously published.5 Twenty-one of the patients with sprue and four of the normal subjects were Puerto Rican. The patients with sprue ranged in age from 15 to 74 and the normal groups from 25 to 56. Treated patients were receiving folic acid orally, 5 mg. daily. Gastric juice was collected before and for 90 mm. after subcutaneous...

Tropical sprue: revisited.

OBJECTIVE To review the experience of patients presenting with clinical manifestations of tropical sprue and assess their diagnosis and management, response to treatment and follow up. METHODS This single center retrospective descriptive study was done at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad from January 1994 to January 2003. All patients who presented with diarrhea, anorexia, weight loss ...