Adult intestinal insufficiency and failure may be caused by a wide range of conditions. This includes extensive mucosal disease in the small bowel.
Patient selection: intestinal insufficiency or failure
Causes of extensive mucosal disease involving the small bowel include:
(1) intractable diarrhea of infancy
(2) severe food allergy in children
(3) celiac disease
(4) Crohn's disease
(5) intestinal lymphangiectasia
(6) common variable immunodeficiency
(7) radiation enteritis
(8) chemotherapy-related enteritis
(9) microvillous inclusion disease
(10) tufting enteropathy
(11) tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome (syndromic diarrhea)
(12) autoimmune enteropathy
(13) protein-losing enteropathy (Waldman's disease, other)
(14) sodium or chloride diarrhea
(15) primary bile acid malabsorption
(16) other congenital disorders with malabsorption (glucose-galactose malabsorption, defects of glycosylation, etc)
