congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy

A congenital diarrhea characterized by intractable diarrhea of infancy with villous atrophy, absence of inflammation, and intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia manifesting as focal epithelial tufts in the duodenum and jejunum that has_material_basis_in homozygo

A congenital diarrhea characterized by intractable diarrhea of infancy with villous atrophy, absence of inflammation, and intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia manifesting as focal epithelial tufts in the duodenum and jejunum that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the EPCAM gene on chromosome 2p21.

Signs and symptoms

• Intractable diarrhea
• Villous atrophy
• Crypt hyperplasia
• Failure to thrive
• Small for gestational age
• Arthritis

Also known as: DIAR5; congenital diarrhoea 5 with tufting enteropathy; congenital familial intractable diarrhea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities; congenital familial intractable diarrhoea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities; congenital tufting enteropathy