Serôdio, Joana and Carneiro, Joana and Veiga, Manuel and Ferreira, António (2019) Olmesartan: A Little-Known Cause of Diarrhoea. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 6 (7). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Olmesartan´s sprue-like enteropathy was first described in 2012 and typically presents with diarrhoea, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, low albumin and histological evidence of intestinal villous atrophy. Coeliac disease is one of the main differential diagnoses and should be excluded. We present the clinical case of a 63-year-old man treated with olmesartan for 10 years who presented with a 2-month history of diarrhoea and was diagnosed with olmesartan´s enteropathy. This case highlights the need for clinical suspicion of this new entity in order to reduce the associated morbidity and unnecessary costly investigations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Olmesartan, diarrhoea, villous atrophy |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2020 20:37 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2020 20:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19490 |
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