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Quantifying daily fecal weight is a clinically feasible biomarker for clinically significant malabsorption in ICU patients.
It is possible that some critically ill patients have significant malabsorption and cannot be fed enterally.
Although clinically significant malabsorption of nutrients is not frequent in these conditions, low-grade malabsorption seems to be involved in the development of malnutrition in these patients [ 1- 3].
In conclusion, we propose to quantify daily FWW in the ICU as a clinically feasible biomarker for clinically significant malabsorption in ICU patients, in particular, in case of diarrhea.
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Significant intestinal malabsorption of various substrates, including bile acids, is a consistent finding in CF patients.
In severe cases, significant protein and energy malabsorption can occur and may require supplementary hypertonic nutrients and electrolyte infusions administered both daytime and nocturnally.
In our study, age also had a significant effect on fructose malabsorption, with a higher proportion of young children testing positive, and no effect on the test results for the lactose and sorbitol HBT (Table 1).
The response to oral administration of Beta-Galactosidase in patients with symptoms of lactose malabsorption presents a significant variability.
A significant reduction in bile salt malabsorption using a 40 g fat−1 diet1 dint ininene patients was reported (Bosaeus et al, 1979).
Patients were excluded if there were medical or psychiatric conditions precluding informed consent, renal impairment, known malabsorption syndrome or significant cardiac disease, arrythmias or angina pectoris.
Other evidence, however, suggests that a diminished capacity of the ileal mucosa for bile acid uptake plays a significant role in bile acid malabsorption associated with cystic fibrosis that is independent of triglyceride concentrations.
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