Protein-losing enteropathy
Etiology
Etiology
Etiology
Mucosal disease with ulceration
- Chronic gastric ulcer
- Gastric carcinoma
- Lymphoma
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Idiopathic ulcerative jejunoileitis
Lymphatic obstruction - Primary intestinal lymphangiectasia
- Secondary obstruction: cardiac disease (constrictive pericarditis, congestive heart failure), infection (tuberculosis, Whipple’s disease), neoplasm (lymphoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma), retroperitoneal fibrosis, sarcoidosis
Idiopathic mucosal transudation - Ménétrier’s disease (hypertrophic gastropathy)
- Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma)
- Viral gastroenteritis
- Celiac sprue
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
- Allergic protein-losing enteropathy
- Parasites, eg, giardiasis, hookworm
- Amyloidosis
- Common variable immunodeficiency
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
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