tetracycline and Malabsorption-Syndromes

Topics: Animals; Blood Proteins; Diuresis; Female; Fetus; Growth; Humans; Infections; Intestinal Absorption; Intestinal Mucosa; Liver; Malabsorption Syndromes; Parasitic Diseases; Photosensitivity Disorders; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications; Rats; Splenomegaly; Tetracycline

Ninety-five patients who had megaloblastic anaemia, and who lived in a subtropical climate, were studied to elucidate the importance of puerperium, malabsorption, gastric dystrophy, diet and infection in the aetiology of the disease. All 5 factors were found to be common, and to occur in a variety of combinations, producing a wide spectrum of illness variously resembling nutritional megaloblastic anaemia, sprue, pernicious anaemia and many stages in between. It is concluded that megaloblastic anaemia in this population is a multifactorial disease, and a tentative scheme, relating the aetiological factors, is drawn up. Neither serum vitamin B(12) levels, nor folate estimation in serum or red cells emerged as very reliable guides to the underlying biochemical deficiency.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Anemia, Macrocytic; Anemia, Megaloblastic; Clinical Trials as Topic; Double-Blind Method; Female; Folic Acid; Humans; Infections; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Fourteen 5-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were equally divided into two groups, sham-operated and gastrectomized. Tetracycline and calcein were given to label dentine. Four weeks after surgery, blood was collected for measurement of serum iron, calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) and the mandibles and maxillae were then removed. Sagittal sections of the maxilla or cross-sections of the mandible were prepared and examined. Backscattered electron images of the maxilla were taken and the iron content at the neck of incisors was measured by energy-dispersive X-ray. The dentine apposition rate in maxillary incisors was measured by fluorescence microscopy. Serum iron was significantly decreased, while PTH was significantly elevated without any change in the serum calcium in gastrectomized rats. Gastrectomy caused a gross loss of iron content in superficial enamel. The dentine apposition rate was significantly reduced by 30%. Both cortical and cancellous bone in the mandibula were significantly reduced. However, the total bone area in gastrectomized rats was similar to that in sham-operated rats. These results suggest that bone resorption was enhanced and dentine formation was reduced after gastrectomy.

Topics: Anemia, Iron-Deficiency; Animals; Bone Resorption; Calcium; Dental Enamel; Dentin; Dentinogenesis; Electron Probe Microanalysis; Fluoresceins; Fluorescent Dyes; Gastrectomy; Incisor; Iron; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Mandible; Maxilla; Microscopy, Electron; Microscopy, Fluorescence; Parathyroid Hormone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Statistics as Topic; Tetracycline

Two cases of nonmalignant immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) presenting with severe malabsorption are described. The first patient had a lymphocytic infiltrate of the lamina propria and lymphoid hyperplasia of the mesenteric lymph nodes and responded to oral tetracycline. The second patient had a polyclonal plasmacytic infiltration of the lamina propria and of the mesenteric nodes and responded only to cytotoxic treatment with cyclophosphamide. These cases represent examples of non-alpha-chain disease benign IPSID.

Topics: Biopsy; Cyclophosphamide; Female; Humans; Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Tetracycline

Of 28 healthy, nondiarrheal, colostrum-fed neonatal calves, 22 developed diarrhea after they were given (orally) for 3 to 5 days maximally recommended doses of chloramphenicol, neomycin, ampicillin, or tetracycline. Ampicillin-, neomycin-, or tetracycline-treated calves had significantly (P less than 0.05) decreased and delayed glucose absorption during oral glucose tolerance tests. Chloramphenicol-treated calves had significantly (P less than 0.05) higher base-line plasma glucose concentrations during the non-test period and had no significant increase in blood glucose concentrations during the tolerance tests compared with those in control calves.

Topics: Ampicillin; Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Blood Glucose; Blood Proteins; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Chloramphenicol; Diarrhea; Glucose Tolerance Test; Hematocrit; Lactates; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Neomycin; Potassium; Sodium; Tetracycline

The 14CO2- glycylcholate breath test (also called the bile acid breath test) was performed in a group of 42 normal young volunteers (group A), a group of 25 elderly subjects in apparently good health (group B) and a group of 22 hospitalized geriatric patients presenting with weight loss (group C). The 95 percentile value of the cumulative 14CO2 excretion at the third and the sixth hour in group A was taken as the limit for normal values for 14CO2 excretion. Using these criteria 56% of group B subjects and 50% of group C patients were considered abnormal at the third hour, whereas at the sixth hour these percentages were 56% and 54%, respectively. Repetition of the bile acid breath test after antibiotic treatment in the hospitalized group suggested that bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine was responsible for the abnormal 14CO2 breath test in the elderly persons. However, the large number of abnormal tests in healthy elderly people, not complaining of any gastro-intestinal discomfort, indicates that bacterial overgrowth may remain asymptomatic and that an abnormal test does not necessarily mean that the symptoms of a patient are to be ascribed to this finding.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Bacterial Infections; Bile Acids and Salts; Breath Tests; Carbon Dioxide; Glycocholic Acid; Humans; Intestinal Absorption; Intestine, Small; Malabsorption Syndromes; Tetracycline

Six patients subjected to jejuno-ileal bypass surgery for obesity were studied for vitamin B12 absorption by the use of the Schilling test, together with measurement of the serum B12 level preoperatively and at 2, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after the operation. During the follow-up period of 2 years, the serum vitamin B12 level gradually declined to abnormally low values. A postoperative fall of the originally normal vitamin B12 absorption to abnormal values was found. Oral administration of tetracycline resulted in a transitory improvement of the results by the Schilling test, but after its discontinuation serve vitamin-B12 malabsorption was again demonstrable. The importance of parenteral vitamin B12 administration after jejuno-ileal bypass surgery is emphasized.

Topics: Humans; Ileum; Jejunum; Kinetics; Malabsorption Syndromes; Obesity; Postoperative Complications; Schilling Test; Short Bowel Syndrome; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

The bacterial flora of the upper intestine has been examined in symptomatic expatriate adults with mild tropical malabsorption, without steatorrhoea, persisting for many months after return to a western environment. Seven of the 11 patients had enterobacteria in luminal fluid or mucosal samples in numbers ranging from 10(3) to 10(8) per ml or per g. The most common isolate was Klebsiella pneumoniae (in four cases); Citrobacter freundii, Serratia marcescens and Pseudomonas spp. were also detected. The signficance of bacterial colonization in the pathogenesis of mild tropical malabsorption is discussed.

Topics: Adult; Bacteria; Enterobacteriaceae; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline

The bile acid breath test was studied to examine its sensitivity for establishing the diagnosis of bacterial overgrowth in comparison to that of the Schilling test and small-intestinal cultures in 12 patients with a stagnant (blind) loop syndrome, as well as in 38 patients who had other conditions with suspected bacterial contamination of the small intestine. The presence of bile acid malabsorption was excluded in all 50 patients by studies of fecal excretion of radioactively labeled bile acids. The bile acid breath test was positive in 100% (12/12) of the patients with a stagnant (blind) loop syndrome, whereas 92% (11/12) had a positive Schilling test and 75% (9/12) a positive small-intestinal culture. The abnormal tests improved only in 2 of 4 patients treated with tetracycline. In the group of 38 patients without demonstrable dilated or blind loops of small bowel who were suspected of having bacterial contamination of small bowel, the bile acid breath test was positive in 53% (20/38), the Schilling test in 39% (15/38), and the small-intestinal culture in 45% (17/38). The difference in the incidence of positive results between the tests in the two patient groups was statistically not significant. The findings of these studies have the following diagnostic implications: (1) Bile acid breath test, Schilling test, and cultures of aspirates from the upper small bowel are of comparable sensitivity in the detection of bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. (2) A negative bile acid breath test makes the diagnosis of a stagnant (blind) loop syndrome very unlikely.

Topics: Bacteria; Bile Acids and Salts; Blind Loop Syndrome; Breath Tests; Carbon Radioisotopes; Chromium Radioisotopes; Humans; Intestine, Small; Malabsorption Syndromes; Schilling Test; Tetracycline; Tritium

A case report is given of a patient with a malabsorption syndrome. Primary diagnostic procedures including x-ray examinations and endoscopy yielded no results. Alterations of the abdominal lymph vessel system were found during peritoneoscopy giving rise to the hypothetical diagnosis of Whipple's disease. This diagnosis was confirmed by intestinal biopsy yielding macrophages with PAS-positive inclusion bodies. It is pointed out, that peritoneoscopy is a good means to evaluate the abdominal lymph vessel system.

Topics: Doxycycline; Duodenum; Humans; Laparoscopy; Lymph Nodes; Macrophages; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Tetracycline; Whipple Disease

1. Vitamin B12 absorption was measured in 18 patients with tropical malabsorption. 2. Absorption was particularly impaired in patients with severe mucosal lesions. 3. Sequential measurements with 57Co- and 58Co-labelled vitamin B12 were made before and 48 h after the start of tetracycline therapy. A rapid improvement (on average 22% increase in absorption) occurred in four of six patients with marked mucosal lesions. Further improvement occurred in four of five patients measured after 4 weeks' tetracycline, including the two who failed to improve initially. 4. These rapid changes in vitamin B12 absorption after antibiotics occur too early to be due to mucosal recovery and suggest that bacterial metabolism is an important factor in the malabsorption in these patients.

Topics: Adult; Female; Humans; Intestinal Absorption; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Time Factors; Tropical Medicine; Vitamin B 12

Probable bacterial contamination of the small bowel without an anatomical sump occurred in 5 elderly patients (age 68--94). They presented with severe general deterioration in health rather than with obvious features of malabsorption. This syndrome has not been clearly described before. Bacterial deconjugation of bile salts was indentified by the 14C-glycocholic-acid breath test. Investigations for other causes of malabsorption, including small-bowel biopsy and pancreatic scan, revealed no abnormality. After prolonged ill-health despite an adequate diet in hospital, all 5 subjects made a striking recovery after treatment with antibiotics. This condition may be quite common, particularly in malnourished elderly people.

Topics: Age Factors; Aged; Bile Acids and Salts; Clindamycin; Enterobacteriaceae; Female; Humans; Intestine, Small; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Nutrition Disorders; Tetracycline

Topics: Aged; Diarrhea; Escherichia coli; Female; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Staphylococcus aureus; Tetracycline

Extensive metabolic studies were conducted in five normal controls and in five study patients after total gastric resection with Roux-en-Y (RY) reconstruction to determine the nutritional consequences of this particular technique of restoring gastrointestinal continuity. Although malabsorption of fat (19.2 +/- 2.2%) and nitrogen (22 +/- 2.5%) demonstrated in the study patients was moderate, it was significantly greater than normal ( less than 0.01). In spite of the demonstrated malabsorption, however, positive nitrogen balances (+ 0.33 +/- 0.18 gm/day) were maintained in the RY patients throughout the investigative period. These observations suggest that malabsorption after RY is infrequently of clinical significance, even in this "worst-case" situation characterized by complete removal of gastric tissue. Malnutrition should occur in only those patients with more limited gastric resections and RY reconstruction who are unable to increase caloric intake to cover losses due to malabsorption. A significant decrease in both trypsin and lipase concentrations and a marked delay in secretion of these enzymes was noted in the RY patients in response to a test meal (p less than 0.01). Malabsorption of fat and nitrogen in RY patients improved after exogenous pancreatic enzymes, but not after administration of tetracycline. Bacterial overgrowth as a cause of postoperative malabsorption may be less important than previously thought. Malabsorption after RY is due primarily to maldigestion brought about by duodenal bypass which, in turn, results in either an absolute or a relative pancreatic enzyme insufficiency.

Topics: Bile Acids and Salts; Cholecystokinin; Dietary Fats; Female; Gastrectomy; Gastrins; Humans; Jejunum; Lipase; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Nitrogen; Postgastrectomy Syndromes; Secretin; Tetracycline; Trypsin

Malabsorption studies were performed on five Iranian patients with primary small intestinal lymphoma. The effect of oral tetracycline (1.0 g daily) was also studied in three of the above subjects. The results of breath tests (utilizing glycine-1-14C-cholic acid) were abnormal in all five subjects before the antibiotic treatment. Oral tetracycline had a striking effect towards normalizing the results of breath tests. Schilling tests (with intrinsic factor) improve in two patients and steatorrhea improved in all and there was significant weight gain. The antibiotic had no apparent effect on D-xylose or folate absorption tests. It is concluded that bacterial overgrowth in the small intestinal lumen is an important contributory factor to the malabsorption syndrome of this disease.

Topics: Adult; Bacterial Infections; Female; Humans; Intestinal Neoplasms; Intestine, Small; Iran; Lymphoma; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Tetracycline

The case history of a 52-year-old male with weight loss, steatorrhea and arthritis is presented. During clinical pathological conference, Whipple's disease was strongly suggested. The diagnosis could be proved morphologically. Antibiotic therapy with tetracycline 1 g daily for three months caused a prompt improvement. Small bowel biopsy showed disappearance of PAS-containing macrophages.

Topics: Body Weight; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell; Diarrhea; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Humans; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Tetracycline; Whipple Disease

The intraluminal fate of orally administered radioactive vitamin B12 has been studied in control subjects with normal vitamin B12 absorption and those with vitamin B12 malabsorption due to tropical sprue. In control subjects 1 to 21% of the dose was bound to sedimentable material and 37 to 75% was bound to immunoreactive intrinsic factor. In subjects with vitamin B12 malabsorption due to tropical sprue, the results were identical with the control subjects. Bacteriological studies showed a statistically significant correlation between both the number of flora in the jejunum and the number of bacteroides in both the jejunum and ileum and vitamin B12 malabsorption. In patients with tropical sprue who have normal intrinsic factor secretion, the vitamin B12 absorptive defect is not due to binding of the vitamin to bacteria or to alteration to the intrinsic factor vitamin B12 complex in the intestinal lumen. The lesion appears to be one of the mucosal cell receptors or of the cells themselves, possibly caused by bacterial toxins.

Topics: Bacteroides; Humans; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Intestinal Absorption; Intestine, Small; Intrinsic Factor; Intubation, Gastrointestinal; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Twenty-four patients have been found who appear to have endemic tropical sprue, with malabsorption on biochemical, radiological and histological grounds. Patients with the tropical sprue syndrome responded equally well clinically and biochemically to folate and tetracycline. Jejunal histology responded least well to treatment. It is suggested that as more Gastrointestinal Units are opened, especially in humid sea level areas in Africa, more cases of endemic tropical sprue will be found.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Africa; Aged; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Folic Acid; Humans; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline

Steatosis of the liver is a harmless symptom of disturbed lipid metabolism but not a disease. The cause of the steatosis, and not the fat accumulation by itself, produces cirrhosis. There is no evidence so far in man that cirrhosis may be caused by nutritional deficiencies alone. Even cirrhosis after small bowel bypass procedures seems to be result from metabolic rather than nutritional disturbances.

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Alcoholism; Animals; Bile Acids and Salts; Blind Loop Syndrome; Diabetes Complications; Dogs; Fatty Liver; Humans; Hyperlipidemias; Ileum; Jejunum; Kwashiorkor; Lipid Metabolism; Liver Cirrhosis; Malabsorption Syndromes; Obesity; Postoperative Complications; Protein Deficiency; Remission, Spontaneous; Tetracycline

Idiopathic late-onset immunoglobulin deficiency in a young man was associated with achlorhydria and a severe intestinal malabsorption syndrome that did not respond to conventional therapy. Combined therapy with high doses of prednisone and tetracycline hydrochloride resulted in weight gain, cessation of diarrhea, improved absorption of water, fat, and vitamin B12, and production of gastric acid after stimulation with histamine. Serum immunoglobulin levels, however, did not increase.

Topics: Achlorhydria; Adult; Age Factors; Body Weight; Celiac Disease; Cholecystokinin; Diarrhea; Drug Therapy, Combination; Humans; Immunoglobulin M; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Prednisone; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Topics: Achlorhydria; Anemia, Megaloblastic; Anorexia Nervosa; Body Weight; Bone Marrow Cells; Celiac Disease; Diarrhea; Gastritis; Hemoglobinometry; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12; Zimbabwe

Topics: Child; Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Chloramphenicol; Chloroquine; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Energy Metabolism; Humans; Infections; Iron; Kwashiorkor; Malabsorption Syndromes; Nutrition Disorders; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Protein Biosynthesis; Protein Deficiency; Tetrachloroethylene; Tetracycline; Trimethoprim

Topics: Adult; Aged; Bile Acids and Salts; Celiac Disease; Chemical Phenomena; Chemistry; Cholesterol; Cholestyramine Resin; Cholic Acids; Diarrhea; Feces; Female; Gastrointestinal Motility; Glycocholic Acid; Humans; Intestinal Obstruction; Intestine, Small; Lipid Metabolism; Liver; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Taurocholic Acid; Tetracycline

Topics: Antiprotozoal Agents; Biopsy; Chloroquine; Chronic Disease; Coccidiosis; Diagnosis, Differential; Diarrhea; Diet Therapy; Drug Therapy, Combination; Duodenum; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic; Intestine, Small; Isospora; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Metronidazole; Microscopy, Electron; Middle Aged; Nitrofurantoin; Primaquine; Pyrimethamine; Quinacrine; Sulfadiazine; Tetracycline; Time Factors

Thirty-four cases of malabsorption are described in young adults after brief periods of overland travel to India. Symptoms included diarrhoea, abdominal distension, and weight loss. Investigation revealed fat, xylose, and vitamin B(12) malabsorption with marked morphological changes in the mucosa. Lower levels of serum folate and vitamin B(12) were observed in those with protracted diarrhoea, but no anaemia developed. Malabsorption may persist for many months after return to the U.K. Most patients responded initially to antibiotics, but some subsequently relapsed. The reasons why these patients developed tropical sprue are discussed.

Topics: Adult; Asia, Western; Biopsy; Body Weight; Celiac Disease; Diarrhea; Fats; Female; Folic Acid; Humans; India; Intestinal Absorption; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Tetracycline; Travel; Vitamin B 12; Xylose

Topics: Achlorhydria; Adult; Aged; Anemia, Macrocytic; Anemia, Pernicious; Antibodies; Erythrocyte Count; Folic Acid; Histamine; Humans; Intrinsic Factor; Malabsorption Syndromes; Middle Aged; Pentagastrin; Reticulocytes; Schilling Test; South Africa; Stimulation, Chemical; Syndrome; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Anemia, Macrocytic; Anemia, Pernicious; Autoantibodies; Black or African American; Black People; Diagnosis, Differential; Ethnicity; Folic Acid; Gastric Juice; Humans; Intrinsic Factor; Malabsorption Syndromes; Middle Aged; South Africa; Syndrome; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anemia, Macrocytic; Female; Folic Acid; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Pregnancy; Puerperal Disorders; Radiography; South Africa; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline

Topics: Agammaglobulinemia; Anthelmintics; Blood Cell Count; Female; Giardiasis; Humans; Immunoglobulin A; Immunoglobulin G; Immunoglobulin M; Malabsorption Syndromes; Middle Aged; Protein-Losing Enteropathies; Tetracycline

Topics: Amino Acids; Ampicillin; Bacteria; Bacterial Infections; Barium Sulfate; Body Weight; Celiac Disease; Chloramphenicol; Colon; Dietary Fats; Esophagoscopy; Fats; Feces; Female; Gastroesophageal Reflux; Humans; Lipids; Malabsorption Syndromes; Manometry; Middle Aged; Postoperative Complications; Radiography; Tetracycline; Transplantation, Autologous; Vomiting

Topics: Animals; Bacteria; Blind Loop Syndrome; Cobalt Isotopes; Culture Media; Gastric Juice; Intestinal Absorption; Intrinsic Factor; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Methods; Neomycin; Rats; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12; Vitamin B 12 Deficiency

A review of the literature on subclinical intestinal disease shows its probable relevance in certain nutritional deficiencies in the indigenous residents of tropical climates. A significant incidence of intestinal disease has been defined among asymptomatic fit-looking adult Nigerians. The results of subsequent investigation into the pathogenesis of this disorder strongly point to hypoalbuminaemia as the important factor capable of producing a biochemically and histologically defined malabsorptive state leading to subnormal nutritional status among members of this community.

Topics: Adult; Anemia; Biopsy; Ecology; Folic Acid; Humans; Intestinal Diseases; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic; Intestines; Malabsorption Syndromes; Niger; Proteins; Serum Albumin; Serum Globulins; Sprue, Tropical; Strongyloidiasis; Tetracycline; Tropical Medicine; Xylose

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Anemia; Biopsy; Black People; Diarrhea; Fats; Female; Folic Acid; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Nigeria; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Xylose

Topics: Biopsy; Diagnosis, Differential; Diverticulum; Humans; Intestinal Obstruction; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Staphylococcal Infections; Streptococcal Infections; Tetracycline

Topics: Anaphylaxis; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cephalosporins; Chloramphenicol; Drug Hypersensitivity; Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous; Malabsorption Syndromes; Penicillin Resistance; Penicillins; Shock; Streptomycin; Tetracycline

Topics: Cholesterol; Female; Folic Acid; Haiti; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Protein Deficiency; Serum Albumin; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Xylose

Topics: Diarrhea; Humans; Malabsorption Syndromes; Nematode Infections; Taiwan; Tetracycline; Thiabendazole; Trichuroidea

Topics: Aged; Anemia, Macrocytic; Celiac Disease; Diverticulum; Erythrocyte Count; Female; Hematocrit; Hemoglobinometry; Humans; Intestinal Absorption; Intestine, Small; Jejunum; Leukocyte Count; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Neomycin; Radiography; Reticulocytes; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Topics: Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Bacteria; Bacteroides; Chloramphenicol; Dumping Syndrome; Humans; Lincomycin; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Neomycin; Nitrofurantoin; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12

Topics: Aged; Female; Humans; Infarction; Intestinal Obstruction; Intestine, Small; Jejunum; Kidney; Malabsorption Syndromes; Scleroderma, Systemic; Sclerosis; Tetracycline

Topics: Biopsy; Chronic Disease; Cobalt Isotopes; Diarrhea; Dietary Proteins; Fats; Feces; Folic Acid; Humans; Ileum; India; Intestinal Mucosa; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Tropical Climate; Vitamin B 12; Xylose

Topics: Aged; Amino Acids; Carbon Isotopes; Gastroenterostomy; Humans; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Neomycin; Proteins; Serum Albumin, Radio-Iodinated; Tetracycline; Urea

Topics: Adult; Celiac Disease; Chloramphenicol; Female; Humans; Intestinal Diseases; Intestinal Obstruction; Intestine, Small; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Middle Aged; Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis; Pneumoperitoneum; Radiography; Scleroderma, Systemic; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12; Xylose

Topics: Biopsy; Cholera; Diarrhea; Dysentery, Amebic; Humans; Intestine, Small; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Tetracycline; Typhoid Fever

Topics: Asthma; Blood Protein Disorders; Bronchiectasis; Bronchitis; Child; Child, Preschool; Dermatitis, Seborrheic; Eczema; Female; gamma-Globulins; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Methacycline; Otitis Media; Pneumonia; Pyelonephritis; Respiratory Tract Infections; Tetracycline; Tonsillectomy

Topics: Adult; Aged; Bile Acids and Salts; Celiac Disease; Child; Chromatography, Thin Layer; Diverticulum; Fats; Female; Gastrectomy; Humans; In Vitro Techniques; Intestines; Jejunum; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Middle Aged; Postoperative Complications; Tetracycline

Topics: Adult; Body Weight; Folic Acid; Humans; Intestinal Absorption; Malabsorption Syndromes; Pakistan; Social Conditions; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12; Xylose

Topics: Animals; Celiac Disease; Dietary Fats; Dogs; Lipid Metabolism; Malabsorption Syndromes; Pharmacology; Postgastrectomy Syndromes; Research; Tetracycline

Topics: Aged; Animals; Bile Acids and Salts; Celiac Disease; Chromatography, Thin Layer; Escherichia coli; Feces; Humans; Intestine, Small; Lactobacillus; Malabsorption Syndromes; Male; Oleic Acids; Postoperative Complications; Rats; Tetracycline; Triolein

Topics: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Celiac Disease; Diagnosis, Differential; Drug Therapy; Humans; Malabsorption Syndromes; Sprue, Tropical; Tetracycline; Vitamin B 12