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. 2004 Feb;7(1):3-6.
doi: 10.1007/s11938-004-0019-z.

Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia

Charles M. Bliss  1 , Paul C. Schroy III
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Primary Intestinal Lymphangiectasia

Charles M. Bliss et al. Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol. 2004 Feb.

Abstract

A high-protein, low-fat diet supplemented with medium chain triglycerides (MCT) is the simplest, most effective, and most widely prescribed treatment with the fewest side effects. Octreotide has been helpful in cases in which treatment with MCT has failed, but it is costly and requires parenteral administration. Antiplasmin therapy may have some role when evidence of increased fibrinolysis is present. Surgery is reserved for palliation of large ascites or resection of isolated lesions.

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