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Internal Medicine                                                                                                                                                                                                   Internal Medicine
       Gastrointestinal tract                                                                                                                                                                                           Gastrointestinal tract


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                                                                                 Small intestinal
                                                                                   diarrhoea






                         With protein                                                                                                           Without protein
                            loss                                                                                                                    loss






                                                                              Primary
          Destruction of the           Lymphangi-                          gastrointestinal                                                                                              Secondary to
           intestinal wall               ectasia                                                                                                                                        systemic disease
                                                                              disease





         – Parvovirosis                                                        Mal-                                                                                                                        Destruction of
         – Invagination        Acquired                                     assimilation                                                             Increased         Changes in        Inflammation       the normal      Cell damage due
         – Foreign body       (infiltrative     Congenital                                                                                        intestinal motility   mucosal         spreading to the   bacterial gut      to systemic
         – Severe              disease)                                                                                                                                 perfusion       intestinal tract      flora             toxins
           inflammation

                                                                    Mal-                 Mal-
                                                                  absorption            digestion
                       Gastro-                                                                                                                    – Hyper-           – Shock           – Pancreatitis     – Antibiotic      – Uraemia
                      intestinal        Severe                                                                                                      thyroidism       – Hypoadreno-     – Peritonitis       therapy          – Chemo-
                     lymphoma         inflammation                                                                                                                    corticism                                               therapeutic
                                                                                                                                                                     – Thrombosis                                            agents
                                                                                    – Exocrine
                                                                Damage to the                                                                                        – Portal
                                                                   gut wall          pancreatic                                                                       hypertension
                                    – IBD                                            insufficiency                                                                    (e.g. liver
                                    – Infiltrative                                  – Cholestasis                                                                     cirrhosis)
                                     fungal disease
                                     (e.g. histo-            – Intestinal
                                     plasmosis)
                                                               parasites
                                                             – Food responsive
                                                               diarrhea
                                                             – Diarrhea responsive
                                                               to modulation of
                                                               the intestinal
                                                               microbiota
                                                             – Intestinal
                                                               neoplasia
                                                             – Idiopathic
                                                               inflammation  (IBD)











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