Congenital short bowel syndrome
ORPHA:2301· ICD-10 Q43.8
Definition
Congenital short bowel syndrome is a rare intestinal disorder of neonates of unknown etiology. Patients are born with a short small bowel (less than 75 cm in length) that compromises proper intestinal absorption and leads chronic diarrhea, vomiting and failure to thrive.
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive, X-linked recessive
- Age of onset
- Infancy, Neonatal