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Small Bowel Permeability to 51 Cr‐EDTA in Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain
Author(s) -
MEER S. B.,
FORGET P. P.,
HEIDENDAL G. A. K.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11487.x
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal pain , gastroenterology
. Small bowel permeability was investigated in 87 children with recurrent abdominal pain by measuring the 24‐h urinary excretion of orally administered 51 Cr‐EDTA. The mean excretion was 3.64%± 1. 49% per 24 h. The difference between the mean urinary excretion in children with recurrent abdominal pain and control children (2.51 %± 0.70 %), was significant (p<0.01, two sample t‐test). The increased small bowel permeability in children with recurrent abdominal pain might indicate an intestinal etiology for the patients' complaints.