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A case of watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and hypercalcemia associated with nonulcerogenic islet cell tumor of the pancreas.

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A case of watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and hypercalcemia associated with an islet cell tumor was described. A 62-year old man exhibited frequent watery diarrhea and hypokalemia for two years. He had no peptic ulcer and serum gastrin level was normal. His serum calcium was abnormally high and serum

Severe hypokalemia, paralysis, and AIDS-associated isospora belli diarrhea.

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BACKGROUND Hypokalemia of clinical significance, severe enough to cause paralysis and cardiac dysrhythmias, is an uncommon life-threatening medical disorder. Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HPP), where an abrupt intracellular shift of potassium has occurred, must be distinguished from hypokalemic

[Hypokalemia-induced paraplegia secondary to acute diarrhea].

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Hypokalemia can give a variety of syntomatology but more often courses without it or with inespecific clinical manifestations. In our enviroment the etiology of hypokalemia is wide but one of the most common causes in third world countries are diarrheas. We describe a case of severe hypokalemia due

Acute appendicitis presenting as acute diarrhea accompanying hypokalemia.

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Acute appendicitis, characterized as periumbilical pain, migrating to the right iliac fossa, is one of the most common acute surgical conditions. It is usually diagnosed on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms. However, some patients may present atypically and are prone to be misdiagnosed. We

Adult celiac disease presented with celiac crisis: severe diarrhea, hypokalemia, and acidosis.

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An acute severe onset of celiac disease is very uncommon in adults. We describe a patient with adult celiac disease who presented with acute diarrhea that lead rapidly to a life threatening hypokalemia and acidosis, the so-called celiac crisis. Celiac crisis, described mainly in children younger

Neuromuscular manifestations of diarrhea related hypokalemia.

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Twenty-three children from 8-60 months (mean age 21.13 months) admitted with neuromuscular manifestations of diarrhea related hypokalemia were studied. Forty four per cent cases were suffering from diarrhea at the time of admission but in majority of cases (56%), the diarrheal episode had already

Watery diarrhea-hypokalemia-achlorhydria syndrome and carcinoma of the esophagus.

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The watery diarrhea-hypokalemia-achlorhydria syndrome associated with ectopic secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide has only been conclusively documented with tumors originating in the pancreas or sympathetic chain. We report here the case of a 50-yr-old woman who developed this syndrome 3 wk

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome: intermittent diarrhea, relentless hypokalemia, and hypergastrinemia.

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A case of hypergastrinemia, diarrhea, and relentless hypokalemia occurring in a middleaged, mildly hypertensive female is described. The presence of a gastrinoma was suggested by the additional findings of an inordinate degree of hypokalemia for the amount of thiazide used for the treatment of her

Use of Aldosterone Antagonist to Treat Diarrhea and Hypokalemia of Ogilvie's Syndrome.

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Ogilvie's syndrome (OS) is a functional obstruction of the bowel due to an autonomic imbalance. It often presents with diarrhea and is associated with hypokalemia. We present a case of a 70-year-old male who developed severe abdominal distension, watery diarrhea, and persistent hypokalemia status

Pheochromocytoma with histologic transformation to composite type, complicated by watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and achlorhydria syndrome.

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OBJECTIVE To describe the rare occurrence of histologic transformation of a pheochromocytoma to a composite type of tumor during a long-term follow-up, which was complicated by watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and achlorhydria syndrome. METHODS We report the case of a 12-year-old girl who presented

Mild chronic watery diarrhea-hypokalemia syndrome associated with pancreatic islet cell hyperplasia. Elevated plasma and tissue levels of gastric inhibitory polypeptide and successful management with nicotinic acid.

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A 46 year old woman is described who had a 13 half year history of watery diarrhea associated with hypokalemia and hypochlorhydria. The diarrhea was secretory as measured by triple lumen tube perfusion and was associated with an increased concentration of fasting plasma immunoreactive gastric

Vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor which caused to chronic watery diarrhea and hypokalemia.

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Watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and achlorhydria syndrome is a rare cause of chronic secretory diarrhea arising from a vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor. In this article, a 15-month old female patient with watery diarrhea and abdominal distension which lasting four months is presented. In

Watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, achlorhydria syndrome in an infant: effect of the long-acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201-995 on the disease and linear growth.

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An 8-week-old infant presented with vomiting and failure to thrive due to small bowel obstruction caused by a diffusely enlarged pancreas. Surgical bypass of the obstruction was followed by secretory diarrhea, hypokalemia, and dehydration. Plasma vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) (823pg/ml),

A case of the watery diarrhea-hypokalemia-achlorhydria syndrome: successful preoperative treatment of watery diarrhea with a somatostatin analogue.

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A 35-year-old man presenting with severe watery diarrhea was diagnosed as having the watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and achlorhydria (WDHA) syndrome with the elevation of plasma vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) level. Imaging diagnostic techniques revealed a hypervascular tumor at the tail of the

Rapid changes of serum vasoactive intestinal peptide after removal of ganglioneuroblastoma with watery-diarrhea-hypokalemia-achlorhydria syndrome in a child.

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A 23-month-old girl with intractable diarrhea that had persisted for the past 6 months showed typical evidence of water-diarrhea-hypokalemia-achlorhydria (WDHA) syndrome. Serum vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-like immunoactivity was very high, and urine homovanillic acid and noradrenaline were

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