Malassimilation

Malassimilation is malabsorption and maldigestion syndrome with the common symptom of chronic diarrhea.

Differential Diagnosis
In alphabetical order.

Malabsorption

 * Abetalipoproteinemia
 * Adrenal failure
 * Amyloidosis
 * Angina intestinalis
 * Behcet's Disease
 * Carcinoid syndrome
 * Celiac Sprue
 * Chronic intestinal infections and parasitosis
 * Chronic mesenteric vascular insufficiency
 * Collagen diseases with vasculitis
 * Collagen-vascular diseases
 * Congenital fructose malabsorption
 * Congestive Heart Failure
 * Constrictive pericarditis
 * Crohn's Disease
 * Cystinuria
 * Dermatitis herpetiformis
 * Diabetes Mellitus
 * Diseases of the mesenteric vessels
 * Drugs
 * Enteroenteric fistula
 * Eosinophilic enteritis
 * Food allergy
 * Gastroileostomy
 * Gluten-sensitive enteropathy
 * Hartnup Syndrome
 * Hyperthyroidism
 * Hypogammaglobulinemia
 * Hypoparathyroidism
 * Immunodeficiency
 * Infectious enteritis
 * Inflammatory Bowel Disease
 * Intestinal lymphangiectasis
 * Iron deficiency
 * Jejunal bypass
 * Lactase deficiency
 * Lymphomas
 * Malignant intestinal lymphomas and lymph node metastases
 * Massive resection
 * Mastocytosis
 * Protein-losing enteropathy
 * Psoriasis
 * Radiation enteritis
 * Retroperitoneal malignancy
 * Rheumatoid Arthritis
 * Scleroderma
 * Severe right ventricular failure
 * Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
 * Tropical sprue
 * Vasculitis
 * Verner-Morrison Syndrome
 * Whipple's Disease
 * Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

Maldigestion

 * Afferent Loop Syndrome
 * Bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine in blind loop syndrome
 * Cholestasis
 * Chronic pancreatitis
 * Crohn's Disease
 * Cystic Fibrosis
 * Diabetes Mellitus
 * Diverticulosis in the small intestine
 * Drugs
 * Fistula
 * Ileal resection
 * Obstructive jaundice
 * Pancreatectomy
 * Pancreatic Cancer
 * Parenchymal liver diseases
 * Steatorrhea after gastrectomy
 * Stricture
 * Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

Symptoms

 * Anemia
 * Massive feces
 * Mucosa changes
 * Muscle weakness
 * Skin changes
 * Weight loss