cronkhite-canada syndrome (ccs) is a rare, non-familial disorder of unknown etiology associated with alopecia, cutaneous hyperpigmentation, gastrointestinal polyposis, onychodystrophy, diarrhea, weight loss and abdominal pain.the prevalence ofâ gastrointestinal malignancy in ccs patients is about 13%, and especially is high in colorectal and gastric areas; 5 year mortality rate is 55%. in this ...

Abstract Chronic diarrhea, including diarrhea‐predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS‐D), osmotic bile acid and antibiotic‐associated is a common problem which highly associated with disorders of the gut microbiota composition such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) so on. A growing number studies have supported view that Chinese herbal formula alleviates symptoms diarrhea by mod...

A total of 271 patients were prospectively followed up to determine whether patients whose hospital stay is complicated by diarrhea due to Clostridium difficile experience differences in cost and length of stay and survival rates when compared with patients whose stay is not complicated by C. difficile-associated diarrhea. Forty patients (15%) developed nosocomial C. difficile-associated diarrh...