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Recent advances in understanding and managing malabsorption: focus on microvillus inclusion disease
2019-12-05
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Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) is a rare congenital severe malabsorptive and secretory diarrheal disease characterized by blunted or absent microvilli with accumulation of secretory granules and inclusion bodies in enterocytes. The typical clinical presentation of the disease is severe chronic diarrhea that rapidly leads to dehydration and metabolic acidosis. Despite significant advances in our understanding...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 314327f1-83be-55e4-9476-1801ee075dce
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.20762.1