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- Title
Acid steatocrit: a reliable screening tool for steatorrhoea.
- Authors
Van Den Neucker, A M; Kerkvliet, E M; Theunissen, P M V M; Forget, P-PH
- Abstract
This study compared the acid steatocrit (AS) results of healthy children with those of sick children with and without gastrointestinal involvement. Stool samples of 166 children were investigated, comprising 50 healthy children, 26 asthma patients, and 90 patients with gastrointestinal problems divided into 34 treated cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, 16 untreated coeliac disease (CD) patients and 40 patients with various gastrointestinal problems. The median values (5th–95th percentile) of AS results were 3.3% (0.0–21%) for healthy children, 4.5% (1.8–22.5%) for asthma patients, 24.7% (2.6–68.2%) for treated CF patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, 19.8% (3–77.7%) for untreated CD patients and 5.5% (1.8–29%) for patients with various gastrointestinal diseases.
- Subjects
SPRUE; CYSTIC fibrosis; PATIENTS
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2001, Vol 90, Issue 8, p873
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/08035250152509573