Fecal Fat Analyses in Chronic Pancreatitis Importance of Fat Ingestion before Stool Collection.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Quantitative determination of fecal fat still is the gold standard for measuring malabsorption. We evaluated the importance of standardized food intake before and under the collection of feces.

Material and methods

In a project, evaluating patients with suspected chronic pancreatitis (CP) and healthy volunteers (HC), stools were collected for 72 hours coupled to registration of nutritional intake over five consecutive days. Patient groups were created by a modified Layer score, which includes imaging findings, clinical parameters and pancreas function testing.

Results

We found 12 patients with CP, 11 patients without CP and 13 healthy individuals in our database. Median fecal fat in CP patients was 12 g/day, in non-CP patients 5 g/day and in healthy controls

SUBMITTER: Erchinger F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5240989 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature