Question 4 / 27:  A 66 year old woman has profuse watery diarrhea which has lasted more than 6 weeks. The

diarrhea does not improve when oral intake is limited. She has had a 5 pound weight loss. She

drinks two glasses of wine nightly. All stool cultures are negative. Fecal leukocytes are negative.

A Sudan stain performed on a stool specimen is negative. The D-Xylose test shows 10 grams of

xylose in the urine. Stool electrolytes are checked: stool sodium concentration is 85mmol/l and

stool potassium concentration is 50mmol/l.

Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?

A  Irritable bowel syndrome
B  Chronic pancreatitis
C  Carcinoid syndrome
D  Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome
E  Abuse of lactulose
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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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