noun
definition
An intestinal disorder or disease.
Examples of enteropathy in a Sentence
This contributes to mucosal inflammation - " alcoholic enteropathy " .
The disorder may alternatively be termed gluten-sensitive enteropathy or non-tropical sprue.
It is a disease called celiac disease, or gluten-sensitive enteropathy.
Celiac disease is also called sprue, nontropical sprue, gluten sensitive enteropathy, and celiac sprue.
Also called gluten enteropathy or nontropical sprue.
Some patients also suffer loss of protein from the body that often results in low blood levels of albumin and total protein (protein-losing enteropathy) due to increased GI tract permeability.
The condition may also be associated with protein-losing enteropathy, low levels of iron in the blood serum or in the bone marrow (iron-deficiency anemia), or impaired absorption of nutrients by the intestines (malabsorption).
Protein-losing enteropathy may lead to abnormally large amounts of fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces of the body (edema), abdominal distension, and lack of red blood cells (anemia).
As of 2004 there is no cure for eosinophilic gastroenteropathies, and outcomes depend on the specific enteropathy.