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This video provides an algorithm covering the types of diarrhea and the etiologies associated with it.

Keywords

  • Diarrhea
  • Dysentery
  • Pancreatitis
  • Celiac disease
  • Short bowel syndrome
  • Secretory
  • Osmotic
  • Dysmotility
  • Inflammatory
  • Malabsorption

Conflict of Interest

None.

References

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    Burgers K, Lindberg B, Bevis ZJ (2020) Chronic diarrhea in adults: evaluation and differential diagnosis. Am Fam Physician 101(8):472–480. PMID: 32293842PubMedGoogle Scholar

About this video

Author(s)
Kashif Piracha
First online
23 June 2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11689-6_1
Online ISBN
978-3-031-11689-6
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Copyright information
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

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