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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Malabsorption
Causes of malabsorption:
• Abetalipoproteinemia (autosomal recessive)
• AIDS (Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, AIDS enteropathy)
• Amyloidosis
• Celiac disease
• Chronic mesenteric ischemia
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Collagenous sprue
• Crohn’s disease
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
• Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (alpha heavy chaindisease)
• Intestinal lymphangiectasia
• Intestinal lymphoma
• Irradiation enteritis
• Lactase deficiency
• Nongranulomatous ulcerative jejunoileitis
• Post gastrectomy
• Small bowel resection
• Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• Systemic mastocytosis
• Tropical sprue
• Whipple’s disease
• Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
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