Giardiasis with protein-losing enteropathy: diagnosis by fecal alpha 1-antitrypsin determination

S H Korman; B Bar-Oz; A Mandelberg; I Matoth

doi:10.1097/00005176-199002000-00019

Giardiasis with protein-losing enteropathy: diagnosis by fecal alpha 1-antitrypsin determination

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 1990 Feb;10(2):249-52. doi: 10.1097/00005176-199002000-00019.

Authors

S H Korman¹, B Bar-Oz, A Mandelberg, I Matoth

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

PMID: 2303979
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199002000-00019

Abstract

Giardia lamblia infection was documented by jejunal biopsy in a previously healthy 2-year-old boy with acute onset of hypoproteinemia due to protein-losing enteropathy. All symptoms and abnormal laboratory findings resolved with anti-Giardia therapy. This is only the second case report of giardiasis with documented protein-losing enteropathy. Further application of the fecal alpha 1-antitrypsin assay may help to clarify the relationship between Giardia infection and protein-losing enteropathy and its role in development of malnutrition.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Feces / analysis*
Giardiasis / complications
Giardiasis / diagnosis*
Humans
Male
Protein-Losing Enteropathies / diagnosis*
Protein-Losing Enteropathies / etiology
alpha 1-Antitrypsin / analysis*

Substances

alpha 1-Antitrypsin