INTRODUCTION Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE), sometimes referred to as protein-losing gastroenteropathy, is an unusual cause of hypoproteinemia and is characterized by the shedding of large quantities of protein from the gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa. PLE may result from a wide variety of etiologies and can be both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the practicing gastroenterologist. The...

Introduction: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a glomerular disorder characterised by peripheral oedema, heavy proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia, often hyperlipidaemia. Patients generally present with oedema fatigue. Complementary alternative therapies have been widely used in the treatment of NS. The homoeopathic for NS could be safer approach to treating disease.

: Hypoalbuminemia is a good marker of malnutrition. The objective to analyze and correlate the rates wound site infection in patient undergoing emergency surgery with preoperative serum albumin levels. A prospective study 98 patients who underwent between January 2021 June Department General Surgery, Tezpur medical college hospital, Assam were considered for study. Serum was determined preopera...

In conclusion, it should be remembered that celiac disease may present as a celiac crisis in infancy. In the case of acute severe diarrhea with metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia, and hypoalbuminemia resistant to supportive treatment, celiac crisis should be considered in the differential diagnosis. Further investigations are needed to determine the relationships between HLA typing, H. pylori infe...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Clostridium difficile infection is the main cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea, and the clinical and endoscopic findings in those patients have been studied very little in Mexico. The aim of the present study was to describe those findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted that included patients with hospital-acquired diarrhea associated wi...

Despite improvements in dialysis care, the mortality of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States remains high. Factors that thus far have received scant attention, but could significantly affect morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients, are the timing and quality of care before the initiation of dialysis (pre-ESRD). Data from the new version of the Health Care Finan...