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Current lipid-lowering drugs are often unable to achieve low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goals. Moreover, despite LDL-C lowering mostly by statins, a considerable residual vascular risk remains. This is partly associated with atherogenic dyslipidemia where apolipoprotein (apo)
In a family in which the father was the mother's uncle, 3 of the 7 children were affected by a syndrome of malabsorption with various clinical symptoms. Diarrhea appeared in 2 of the children at birth, and in the third child at six months. The diarrhea led to failure-to-thrive, muscular wasting and
Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) is a dietary supplement and usually used along with medications for treating food absorption disorders including diarrhea, steatorrhea and liver disease. It has been shown that MCT plays a role in lowering weight, and decreasing metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity
BACKGROUND
It has been suggested that some of the limitations of the Van de Kamer method for fecal fat measurement could be overcome with the Jeejeebhoy method or the near-infrared reflectance assay.
METHODS
To test this hypothesis, a fecal fat test was carried out with the three methods, adding
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this work was to determine if dysprosium chloride (DyCl(3)) is a suitable nonabsorbable marker for studies of labeled-triglyceride excretion in cystic fibrosis patients allowing excretion to be determined accurately after analysis of one or two stools.
METHODS
A series of 66
BACKGROUND
Steatorrhea represents the indirect sign of lipid maldigestion in chronic pancreatitis and even when the measurement of fecal fat is considered as a gold standard for the diagnosis of steatorrhea, this test is not commonly used within clinical practice because of the inconvenience related
A 41-year-old man had ichtyrosis, ectropion, steatorrhea, and slowly progressive proximal limb weakness. Biopsies showed abnormal lipid accumulation in muscle, liver skin, leukocytes, and gastric mucosa. Lipid storage was particularly marked in cultures of skin and muscle, and it increased in