Tropical sprue (medical condition): A rare digestive disease where the small intestine can't absorb nutrients properly.
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»Introduction: Tropical sprue
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Tropical sprue: chronic malabsorption syndrome occuring mainly in residents of or visitors to the tropics or subtropics; failed intestinal absorption of nutrients results in malnutrition and anemia due to folate deficiency.
Source: Diseases Database
Tropical sprue: chronic malabsorption syndrome occuring mainly in residents of or visitors to the tropics or subtropics; failed intestinal absorption of nutrients results in malnutrition and anemia due to folate deficiency.
Source: CRISP
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Tropical sprue:
Tropical sprue (medical condition): See Tropical sprue (disease information).
»Introduction: Tropical sprue
»Symptoms of Tropical sprue
Tropical sprue: Tropical sprue is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
These medical disease topics may be related to Tropical sprue:
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Tropical sprue into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: Diseases Database
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