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Stable reversal of pathologic signs of primitive intestinal lymphangiectasia with a hypolipidic, MCT-enriched diet
V Alfano1, G Tritto, L Alfonsi
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
|April 12, 2000
Abstract:
We report on a patient with protein-losing enteropathy due to primitive intestinal lymphangiectasia with an early reversal of clinical and biochemical signs and a stable late reversal of pathologic signs after treatment with a hypolipidic diet enriched with medium-chain triacylglycerols.

