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We report the case of a 63-year-old male hospitalised for chronic diarrhoea and weight loss of 11 kg within 2 years. The symptoms began after a trip to Thailand. Various investigations were negative and led to the assumption of tropical sprue, which was treated with tetracycline. Within 4 months the malabsorption deteriorated and the patient was readmitted with severe electrolyte imbalance. CT-scan of the abdomen revealed a thickened intestinal wall in the jejunum. Diagnostic laparotomy was performed and, surprisingly, revealed chylascites. Histology in a segment of the jejunum demonstrated intestinal lymphangiectasias as the cause of the malabsorption. These intestinal lymphangiectasias were most probably the sequela of radiotherapy 30 years earlier for testicular teratocarcinoma. Symptomatic therapy with middle chain triglycerides brought about substantially improvement.
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PMID:[Post-actinic jejunal lymphangiectasis: a rare case of malabsorption]. 1113 29

Giardiasis is one of the most frequent parasitic infections in the world that must be considered in every patient with persistent diarrhoea or digestive tract and/or malabsorption symptoms after a foreign trip or in the immigrant population, although its presentation is not always the typical. A 25 year old woman from Equatorial Guinea was seen at the clinic due to several months of asthenia. The Laboratory analyses showed normocytic and normochromic anaemia and high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Throughout the presentation of the case report the differential diagnoses of asthenia, normocytic and normochromic anemia and high ESR will be discussed until the final diagnosis of giardiasis was made.
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PMID:[Asthenia or anaemia. What is the diagnosis?]. 2489 25