PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Neha Parekh
AU  - Douglas Seidner
AU  - Ezra Steiger
TI  - Managing short bowel syndrome: Making the most of what the patient still has
DP  - 2005 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 833--838
VI  - 72
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/9/833.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/9/833.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2005 Sep 01; 72
AB  - Short bowel syndrome (severe malabsorption after resection of the small bowel) is characterized clinically by chronic diarrhea, dehydration, electrolyte abnormalities, and malnutrition. The severity and management depend on the site and extent of the intestinal resection, whether the ileocecal valve remains, whether there is disease in the residual bowel, and the degree of adaptation of the remaining bowel.