Protein-losing enteropathy
- Protein-losing enteropathy
- Condition in which plasma protein is lost to excess into the intestine. This can be due to diverse causes including gluten enteropathy, extensive ulceration of the intestine, intestinal lymphatic blockage, and infiltration of leukemic cells into the intestinal wall.
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a nonspecific term referring to conditions associated with excessive intestinal loss of plasma protein; these include extensive ulceration (such as inflammatory bowel disease), diffuse mucosal conditions involving rapid desquamation of mucosal epithelial cells (such as adult celiac disease), and obstruction of intestinal lymphatic vessels (intestinal lymphangiectasia).
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