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    DDX For Diarrhea & Weight Loss

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    This document lists numerous congenital, hereditary, infectious, allergic, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic, deficiency, vegetative, endocrine, and other disorders that can cause diarrhea. It includes genetic disorders, infections from various viruses and parasites, inflammatory bowel diseases, metabolic conditions, cancers, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, effects of medications, surgical complications, and radiation injuries as potential causes of diarrhea. The document provides a broad differential diagnosis for diarrhea across multiple etiological categories.

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    This document lists numerous congenital, hereditary, infectious, allergic, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic, deficiency, vegetative, endocrine, and other disorders that can cause diarrhea. It includes genetic disorders, infections from various viruses and parasites, inflammatory bowel diseases, metabolic conditions, cancers, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, effects of medications, surgical complications, and radiation injuries as potential causes of diarrhea. The document provides a broad differential diagnosis for diarrhea across multiple etiological categories.

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    This document lists numerous congenital, hereditary, infectious, allergic, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic, deficiency, vegetative, endocrine, and other disorders that can cause diarrhea. It includes genetic disorders, infections from various viruses and parasites, inflammatory bowel diseases, metabolic conditions, cancers, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, effects of medications, surgical complications, and radiation injuries as potential causes of diarrhea. The document provides a broad differential diagnosis for diarrhea across multiple etiological categories.

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    DDX For Diarrhea & Weight Loss

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    Huda Hamouda
    This document lists numerous congenital, hereditary, infectious, allergic, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic, deficiency, vegetative, endocrine, and other disorders that can cause diarrhea. It includes genetic disorders, infections from various viruses and parasites, inflammatory bowel diseases, metabolic conditions, cancers, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, effects of medications, surgical complications, and radiation injuries as potential causes of diarrhea. The document provides a broad differential diagnosis for diarrhea across multiple etiological categories.

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    Congenital, Developmental Disorders:

    0 Agammaglobulinemia, congenital/autosomal 0 Tufting Enteropathy/Epithelial Dysplasia

    Hereditary, Familial, Genetic Disorders:


    0 Cystic fibrosis

    (mucoviscidosis) 0 Acrodermatitis enteropathica 0 Gardner syndrome 0 Shwachman (Shwachman0 Iga deficiency, selective Diamond) syndrome 0 Johanson Blizzard genetic 0 Microvillous familial syndrome (unco) diarrhea/Davidson's syndrome 0 Familial pheochromocytoma

    0 Turcot syndrome

    Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent) :


    Severity Active diarrhea, any CD4 count Differential Diagnosis Viruses (especially Norwalk virus) Viral hepatitis Herpes enteritis C. difficile (suspect in patients who have recently undergone treatment with antibiotics, or hospitalization) Salmonella Shigella Campylobacter E. coli O157:H7 C. difficile (suspect in patients who have been treated with antibiotics Giardia lamblia E. histolytica Microsporidia Cryptosporidium parvum MAC (CD4 count <50 cells/L) Isospora belli CMV (CD4 count <50 cells/L)

    Chronic diarrhea, any CD4 count

    Chronic diarrhea, CD4 count <300 cells/L

    Allergic, Collagen, AutoImmune Disorders:


    0 Crohn's disease 0 Celiac disease

    0 Inflammatory bowel disease


    0 Diffuse intestinal

    0 Scleroderma bowel
    0 Behcet's Disease

    ulceration (sprue) 0 Sprue (gluten enteropathy) 0 Ulcerative colitis

    Metabolic, Storage Disorders:


    0 Diabetic diarrhea syndrome

    0 Pancreatic lipase deficiency


    0 Fructose intolerance, hereditary 0 Congenital Sodium Diarrhea

    Neoplastic Disorders:
    0 Carcinoid syndrome/Carcinoid metastatic

    0 Neuroblastoma
    0 Pheochromocytoma 0 Zollinger-Ellison syndrome/gastrinoma

    0 Intestinal/gut lymphoma
    0 Neural crest tumor

    Deficiency Disorders:
    0 Malnutrition, fetal

    0 Folate depletion
    0 Folic acid deficiency anemia 0 Malnutrition/Starvation

    0 Pellagra/niacin deficiency
    0 Zinc deficiency

    Vegetative, Autonomic, Endocrine Disorders:


    0 Hyperthyroidism (Graves disease)

    0 Postural hypotension
    0 Addison's disease (chronic adrenal ins) 0 Adrenocorticoid (Isolated) Deficiency

    0 Hypergastrinemia

    Reference to Organ System:


    0 Chloride-wasting diarrhea

    0 Immune deficiency/suppressed status


    0 Malabsorption syndrome 0 Steatorrhea

    0 Hypogammaglobulinemia/Agammaglobuline mia
    0 Pancreatic insufficiency

    0 Mastocytosis, systemic

    Drugs:
    0 Laxative abuse

    0 Lactulose (Cephulac) Administration/Toxicity


    0 Sorbitol Administration/Toxicity/intake 0 Thyrotoxicosis/exogenous

    Poisoning (Specific Agent):


    0 Alcoholism, chronic

    Surgical, Procedure Complication:


    0 Ileum/jejunocolic bypass

    0 Small intestinal bypass


    0 Pancreatectomy 0 Short-bowel syndrome

    Radiation Causes:
    0 Radiation enteritis

    0 Radiation proctitis
    0 Radiation Colitis

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