Catalog

Idiopathic bile acid malabsorption

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Link to WHO Definition

Idiopathic bile acid malabsorption – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/140648189

Bile acid malabsorption is a syndrome of chronic watery diarrhoea with excess faecal bile acids. Disruption of the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids following surgical resection is a common cause, however, in this condition bile acid malabsorption occurs, in spite there is no obvious cause.