MALABSORPTION AND GASTRIC HYPERACIDITY IN SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS - RESULTS OF CIMETIDINE THERAPY

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 74  (2) , 133-137
Abstract
Visceral infiltration by mast cells (systemic mastocytosis) is an unusual manifestation of cutaneous mastocytosis. Symptomatic gastrointestinal disease occurs in approximately 1/4 of patients having systemic mastocytosis. An unusual gastrointestinal complication is malabsorption, described in sporadic case reports. A patient with gastric acid hypersecretion and malabsorption is described. Treatment using the histamine H2 antagonist, cimetidine, ameliorated the patient''s gastrointestinal symptoms; the malabsorption was not resolved.

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