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Diarrhea
Donald P. Kotler, MDChief, GI Division
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
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Intestinal mucosa• Large surface area• Stable ionic microenvironment• Epithelial cell turnover• Epithelial cell maturation• Structural and functional adaptations• Epithelial cell polarity
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Pathophysiology of diarrhea• Osmotic
– decreased surface area– unabsorbable solute
• Secretory– nutrient– toxin– other mediator
• Mixed mechanisms
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Pathogenic mechanisms
• Decreased mucosal surface area• Ileal dysfunction• Exudative enteropathy• Inflammatory or tumor-associated
secretagogues• Altered motility
– Slow transit/bacterial overgrowth– Rapid transit
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Consequences of intestinal resection
RapidNormalTransit
DecreasedNormalAdaptation
DecreasedNormalB12, bile saltabsorption
NormalNormal (if <75%)Total nutrientabsorption
IIeal resectionJejunal resection
Normal mucosa
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Partial villus atrophy
Cryptosporidiosis
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Cryptosporidiosis
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Celiac disease
Viruses associated with gastroenteritis
• Rotaviruses• Adenoviruses• Caliciviruses• Norwalk like viruses or SRSV (Small Round
Structured Viruses)• Astroviruses• SRV (Small Round Viruses)• Coronaviruses• Toroviruses
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Crohn’s ileitis
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Diarrhea and ileal resection
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Mycobacterium avium
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Mycobacterium avium
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Cytomegalovirus colitisUlcerative colitis
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60 liters of IV fluid
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Practice guidelines for themanagement of infectious diarrhea
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Guidelines - why?
• Response to need for cost effectiveapproach to diagnosis and management
• Evidence-based approach– Identify uncertainties– Grades the quality of the evidence as much as
the evidence itself• Work in progress: needs periodic revision
Guidelines
• A - Good evidence torecommend
• B - Fair evidence torecommend
• C - Poor evidence torecommend for or against
• D - Fair evidence torecommend against
• E - Good evidence torecommend against
• I - At least 1 RCT• II - At least 1 well-
designed trial– not RCT– cohort, case control,
dramatic uncontrolledstudies
• III - Expert opinion
Strength Quality
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Diarrhea: magnitude of the problem• Second leading cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide• >200 million cases of diarrhea per year in the US• 73 million physician consultations, 1.8 million
hospitalizations, 3,100 deaths (mostly in the elderly)• Other morbidities: HUS, Guillain-Barre, malnutrition• Etiology hardly ever determined• Etiologic diagnosis usually is too late to be of clinical
use in outpatients• Often untreated, even if diagnosis is made• The large majority of cases are self-limited in
otherwise healthy children and adults
The conflict
Cost containment
Widening array of enteric pathogens:enterohemorrhagic E coli, Salmonella,Shigella, Cyclospora, Cryptosporidium,Giardia, Campylobacter jejuni,Clostridium difficile, microsporidia,caliciviruses, other enteric viruses
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Etiologic diagnosis: who cares?
• Public health: passive surveillance forcommon source outbreaks or seriouspathogens
• Bioterrorism• Vulnerable populations
– Extremes of life– Malnourished– Immune deficient
Other considerations• Regional and seasonal variation in the US• Globalization• Infections promoted by crowding and
uncertain hygeine– Child care– Schools– Cruise ships
• Decreased recovery with immune deficiency:HIV, immune suppressed, post-transplant,aging
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Guidelines• Oral rehydration• Clinical and epidemiological evaluation• Stool tests• Antimicrobial therapy• Antidiarrheals• Available immunizations
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Clinical recommendations• Initial rehydration: ORS A-I
– available commercially– 3.5 gm NaCl, 2.5 gm NaHCO3, 1.5 gm KCl , and
20 gm glucose or glucose polymer per liter ofwater
– glucose can be supplied as sucrose or cookedcereal flour
– Na 90 mM, K 20 mM, Cl 80 mM, HCO3 30 mM,glucose 111 mM
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Composition of oral solutions
730 690 3Apple juice
540 500 3Ginger ale
145 111 20Sports drink
450 0 250Chicken soup
310 111 90WHO-ORSosmolalityGlucose Na
Na and glucose as mM, osmolality in mosm