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Descriptor English: Sprue, Tropical
Descriptor Spanish: Esprue Tropical
Descriptor esprue tropical
Scope note: Síndrome de malabsorción crónica que ocurre principalmente en los residentes o visitantes de los trópicos y subtrópicos. La malabsorción de nutrientes en el INTESTINO DELGADO da lugar a MALNUTRICIÓN y ANEMIA por deficiencia de ÁCIDO FÓLICO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Espru Tropical
Descriptor French: Sprue tropicale
Entry term(s): Idiopathic Tropical Malabsorption Syndrome
Tropical Sprue
Tree number(s): C06.405.469.637.850
C18.452.603.850
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013182
Scope note: A chronic malabsorption syndrome, occurring mainly in residents of or visitors to the tropics or subtropics. The failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION of nutrients from the SMALL INTESTINE results in MALNUTRITION and ANEMIA that is due to FOLIC ACID deficiency.
Annotation: note "tropical": do not confuse with non-tropical sprue which is CELIAC DISEASE
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Related: Celiac Disease MeSH
DeCS ID: 13567
Unique ID: D013182
NLM Classification: WD 175
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2012/12/04
Sprue, Tropical - Preferred
Concept UI M0020397
Scope note A chronic malabsorption syndrome, occurring mainly in residents of or visitors to the tropics or subtropics. The failed INTESTINAL ABSORPTION of nutrients from the SMALL INTESTINE results in MALNUTRITION and ANEMIA that is due to FOLIC ACID deficiency.
Preferred term Sprue, Tropical
Entry term(s) Idiopathic Tropical Malabsorption Syndrome
Tropical Sprue



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