Steatorrhea
Steatorrhea: Introduction
Steatorrhea: A condition which occurs when there is an excess of fat in the faeces.
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Causes of Steatorrhea:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Steatorrhea.
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causes of Steatorrhea
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Steatorrhea Treatments
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Causes of General Symptom Types
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Steatorrhea
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Misdiagnosis and Steatorrhea
Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms
of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed.
The...read more »
Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea
is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance....read more »
Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but...read more »
Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down
with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e....read more »
Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the
more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed
(it can, of course, also fail to be...read more »
Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive
conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption...read more »
Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent
difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases.
Some of the better known...read more »
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Medical Books Excerpts
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Medical Books Excerpts
- Steatorrhea
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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Steatorrhea: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Definitions of Steatorrhea:
Steatorrhea: Passage of fat in large amounts in the feces, due to failure to digest and absorb it; occurs in pancreatic disease and the malabsorption syndromes. SYN: fat indigestion. SYN: stearrhea. [steato- + G. rhoia, a flow]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
The presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Excessive amounts of fats in the feces, as in malabsorption syndromes.
- (Source - CRISP)
Detailed list of causes of Steatorrhea
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causes of Steatorrhea
How Common are these Causes of Steatorrhea?
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not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Steatorrhea.
Of the 26
causes of Steatorrhea that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 1
causes are "very common" diseases
- 1
causes are "common" diseases
- 1
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 1
causes are "rare" diseases
- 4
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 21
causes have no prevalence information.
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causes of Steatorrhea
Conditions listing symptoms: Steatorrhea:
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Causes of Steatorrhea Based on Risk Factors
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Classifications of Steatorrhea:
Medical Conditions associated with Steatorrhea:
Stool symptoms (2393 causes), Stool odor (60 causes), Bowel problems (2395 causes), Odor symptoms (132 causes), Intestinal symptoms (4935 causes), Lower abdominal symptoms (2879 causes), Abdominal symptoms (5477 causes), Digestive system symptoms (4935 causes), Body symptoms (4926 causes), Bowel movements (2276 causes)
Symptoms related to Steatorrhea:
Stool symptoms (2393 causes), Stool color changes (356 causes), Stool odor (60 causes), Bowel symptoms (4935 causes), Cystic fibrosis, Milk allergy, Pancreatitis (19 causes), Celiac disease, Malabsorption of fats in small intestine, Malabsorption (121 causes), Sprue
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