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2912027

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
Many approaches have been proposed to differentiate between steatorrhea due to pancreatic insufficiency and intestinal disease. Bo-Linn and Fordtran recently suggested that fecal fat concentration (FFC) is a useful screening test for this distinction. Our aim was to validate their result in a large group of patients. Fecal fat concentrations were calculated for 613 fecal fat tests in 538 patients. Included were 88 patients with pancreatic steatorrhea (13 pancreatic carcinoma, 6 cystic fibrosis, and 69 chronic pancreatitis) and 525 with nonpancreatic steatorrhea. The mean FFC of patients with pancreatic disease (15.0 +/- 1.9 g%, mean +/- SEM) was significantly higher than that of patients with other diseases causing malabsorption (8.9 +/- 0.3 g%, p less than 0.001). Forty-two percent of patients with pancreatic steatorrhea had an FFC below 10 g%. The overlapping of the FFC of steatorrhea due to pancreatic disease and that produced by celiac disease, gastric resection, and other conditions suggests that this approach does not differentiate between pancreatic and intestinal steatorrhea.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-9270
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
84
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
27-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Fecal fat concentration in the differential diagnosis of steatorrhea.
pubmed:affiliation
Small Bowel Section, Hospital Nacional de Gastroenterologia Dr. C. Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article