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Enteroendocrine cell dysgenesis and malabsorption, a histopathologic and immunohistochemical characterization.

Abstract：

:Enteroendocrine cell dysgenesis was observed in 3 patients with intestinal failure of unknown cause. Enteroendocrine cell dysgenesis is a congenitally acquired life-threatening malabsorptive condition with a unique clinical phenotype paired with a histologically identifiable disease pattern. Two cases were first presented at the Ninth International Small Bowel Transplantation Symposium, Brussels 2005, and were subsequently published (N Engl J Med 2006;355:270). We now present the histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings of the gastric antrum, small bowel, and colon in greater detail. The clinical phenotype of the patients was unusual in that the affected patients demonstrated profound malabsorption of all nutrients, except water, from birth. The small intestine in each patient demonstrated almost no abnormality, except a near absence of endocrine cells in the mucosa. The colon appeared similarly affected. Known causes of congenital malabsorption, inflammatory, and infectious causes of diarrhea were excluded. The defect is secondary to point mutations in NEUROG3, which result in an arrest of endocrine cell development in the small intestine and colon. This work describes the pathologic characterization of enteroendocrine cell dysgenesis using routine techniques. The pattern of injury is distinct from other histopathologically assessed congenital malabsorptive conditions such as microvillus inclusion disease, tufting enteropathy, and abetalipoproteinemia. It is also easily distinguished from inflammatory conditions such as food allergy, gluten-sensitive enteropathy, autoimmune enteropathy, IPEX (immune dysfunction, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, and X-linked inheritance), and inflammatory bowel disease. The histopathology of disease is similar to what has been found transiently in a single patient with autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type I.

journal_name

Hum Pathol

journal_title

Human pathology

authors

Cortina G,Smart CN,Farmer DG,Bhuta S,Treem WR,Hill ID,Martín MG

doi

10.1016/j.humpath.2006.10.014

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-04-01 00:00:00

pages

570-80

issue

eissn

0046-8177

issn

1532-8392

pii

S0046-8177(06)00622-8

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Enteroendocrine cell dysgenesis and malabsorption, a histopathologic and immunohistochemical characterization.