<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The intestinal transit disorders are polymorphic clinical manifestations requiring complex differential diagnosis and a multidisciplinary medical team.A major challenge for the clinician is the differentiation of patients with organic suffering versus functional disorder.Anemia is the most common extra-digestive manifestation of intestinal inflammatory diseases.We have evaluated biologically and by imaging patients with diarrhea and alternating diarrhea/constipation without including infectious causes. We plan to determine in these patients the status and type of anemia, as well as its correlation with local and systemic inflammation.</abstract>

The intestinal transit disorders are polymorphic clinical manifestations requiring complex differential diagnosis and a multidisciplinary medical team.A major challenge for the clinician is the differentiation of patients with organic suffering versus functional disorder.Anemia is the most common extra-digestive manifestation of intestinal inflammatory diseases.We have evaluated biologically and by imaging patients with diarrhea and alternating diarrhea/constipation without including infectious causes. We plan to determine in these patients the status and type of anemia, as well as its correlation with local and systemic inflammation.

Assessment of Anemia in Correlation with Inflammatory Status in Patients with Intestinal Transit Disorders

Internal Medicine

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The intestinal transit disorders are polymorphic clinical manifestations requiring complex differential diagnosis and a multidisciplinary medical team.A major...

Assessment of Anemia in Correlation with Inflammatory Status in Patients with Intestinal Transit Disorders

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 15 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0034

Keywords
anemia, intestinal inflammation, chronic diarrhea

© 2018 Cristina Voicu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Assessment of Anemia in Correlation with Inflammatory Status in Patients with Intestinal Transit Disorders

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 15 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0034

Keywordsanemia, intestinal inflammation, chronic diarrhea

© 2018 Cristina Voicu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
anemia, intestinal inflammation, chronic diarrhea