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  • Title: [Malabsorption in alcoholic cirrhosis].
    Author: Baumer P, Kodjoh N, Cosnes J, Le Quintrec M, Gendre JP, Le Quintrec Y.
    Journal: Ann Gastroenterol Hepatol (Paris); 1986 Dec; 22(7):379-83. PubMed ID: 3813479.
    Abstract:
    21 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis were worked up for malabsorption. In three patients, the fecal weight was over 200 g/24 h; three had a steatorrhea over 6 g/24 h and in four the creatorrhea was over 2 g/24 h. The D-xylose test was abnormal 4 times out of 18, but these 4 patients presented an ascites. Alpha-1-antitrypsin clearance was increased in 1 out of 9 patients. The Lundh test demonstrated in 5 out of 8 cases an external pancreatic insufficiency, but without any relation with the fecal losses. The 4 patients with malabsorption showed signs of malnutrition (anthropometric criteria). In the course of an alcoholic cirrhosis, malabsorption seems therefore infrequent, dissociated, and only observed in patients with signs of malnutrition.
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