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congenital short bowel syndrome

Disease Summary
Associated Targets (2)
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Mondo Description Congenital short bowel syndrome is a rare intestinal disorder of neonates of unknown etiology. Patients are born with a short small bowel (less than 75 cm in length) that compromises proper intestinal absorption and leads chronic diarrhea, vomiting and failure to thrive.
Uniprot Description A disease characterized by a shortened small intestine, intestinal malrotation, and malabsorption. The mean length of the small intestine in CSBS patients is approximately 50 cm, compared with a normal length at birth of 190-280 cm. Patients with CSBS may develop severe malnutrition as a result of the hugely reduced absorptive surface of the small intestine. Infants require parenteral nutrition for survival. However, parenteral nutrition itself causes life-threatening complications such as sepsis and liver failure which are associated with a high rate of mortality early in life.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0014097:  congenital short bowel syndrome
Orphanet:2301: 
SCTID:715201005: