five of the patients with watery chronic diarrhea (one patient died), improved within 10 days of treatment. In Dakar, during the study describing ordinary and opportunistic enteropathogens associated with diarrhea in adults (5), stool samples were collected from five HIV-infected adults with watery chronic diarrhea. In all cases, heavy K. pneumoniae growth was observed on the primary culture me...

Good's syndrome is a rare cause of immunodeficiency in adults associated with thymoma. We describe an 80-year-old female with chronic diarrhea, multiple opportunistic infections, and cytopenias. She underwent a thymectomy 5 years ago for a thymoma. Laboratory tests revealed neutropenia, hypogammaglobulinaemia, complete B-cell lymphopenia, and low CD4 T cells with inverted CD4:CD8 ratio, which i...

Cronkhite-Canada syndrome (CCS) is a rare non-hereditary disease characterized by chronic diarrhea, diffuse intestinal polyposis and onychodystrophy. We present here a case of a middle-aged female who presented with chronic intermittent bloody diarrhea associated alopecia and loss of finger and toe nails. Labs were remarkable for microcytic anemia and severe hypoalbuminemia. Endoscopy showed nu...

Before one considers active nutritional therapy for a global problem as devastating and massive as chronic infant diarrhea, one should consider the preventive aspects of nutritional care. The favorable impact of breast-feeding on the incidence and course of diarrheal disease has been rediscovered and reaffirmed in most parts of the world. This very important protection provided by breastfeeding...

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare cause of chronic diarrhea. When systemic symptoms such as diarrhea occur, distal metastasis often exists. The most common clinical presentation of MTC is solitary thyroid nodule. It was uncommon that chronic diarrhea as initial presentation of MTC without visible thyroid nodule. A 66-year-old woman suffered from watery diarrhea for 4 months. Irritable...