steatorrhea/headache

Despite having normal height and weight, a 6-year-old girl had frequent bowel movements and slight recurrent chest infections since the age of 4 years and headache for 1 year. The patient appeared healthy, but examination of the ocular fundus revealed papilledema. Cranial computed tomography

A 63-year-old woman with psoriatic arthritis developed arthralgias and shoulder girdle myalgias which were controlled with amitriptyline. Some months later she presented with headache, jaw claudication, weight loss, and chest pain. Anemia of chronic disease, cholestasis, steatorrhea, and pericardial

OBJECTIVE To analyse the results obtained after cephalic pancreatoduodenectomy in patients with severe chronic pancreatitis. METHODS Retrospective study of indications and results of the intervention.Patients. The inclusion criteria were severe anatomic alteration of the head of the pancreas

Celiac disease develops from an autoimmune response to specific dietary grains that contain gluten. Diagnosis can be made based on the classical presentation of diarrhea, fatty stools, and abdominal bloating and cramping, as well as the presence of specific serum antibodies. In addition, gluten

This single-center open sequential study aimed at comparing the efficacy of a 6-month treatment with lanreotide (LAN) (60-90 mg/month i.m.), to that of octreotide (OCT) (0.3-0.6 mg/day s.c.) in 45 patients with active acromegaly (GH, 63.2+/-12.1 ng/ml, IGF-I, 757+/-67.1 ng/ml). After 6 months of OCT

Octreotide is a somatostatin analog that inhibits growth hormone release showing higher potency than natural somatostatin so it has proved to be effective in acromegaly treatment. The objective of present study was to establish the effects of octreotide LAR (long acting release) preparation in

Ten acromegalic patients, four previously untreated, were studied before and at regular intervals during treatment with the long-acting somatostatin analog SMS 201-995 (200-300 micrograms daily for 2 or 3 sc injections for 16-108 weeks). All patients had rapid clinical improvement, with

Coccidial parasites of the genus Isospora cause intestinal disease in several mammalian host species. These protozoal parasites have asexual and sexual stages within intestinal cells of their hosts and produce an environmentally resistant cyst stage, the oocyst. Infections are acquired by the