a serious illness in which the intestine is shortened, either by disease or necessary surgery. Patients with short bowel syndrome are unable to digest food properly.
A life-long condition caused by the removal of a large part of the small intestine, making sufficient digestion of nutrients impossible.
characteristic symptoms, including impaired digestion and absorption, resulting from removal of a portion of the small intestine.
A condition arising from surgical resection of large sections of the small intestine. Essentially, the absorptive surfaces been diminished to such a degree that patients can not maintain adequate absorption. Diarrhea, weakness and weight loss all result from this problem.
problems related to absorbing nutrients after removal of part of the small intestine.
A condition in which so much diseased bowel has been surgically removed that the remaining intestine can no longer absorb sufficient nutrients.
A malabsorption syndrome resulting from the surgical removal of an extensive portion of the small intestine.
Short bowel syndrome is a malabsorption disorder caused by either the surgical removal of the small intestine or the loss of its absorptive function due to diseases.
