Steatorrhea refers to bulky, foul-smelling, oily stool that tends to be pale in color and float in the toilet bowl, resisting flushing. (These are the 9 most common reasons your poop is black.) If it ...

THE steatorrhea occurring in nontropical sprue or the "malabsorption syndrome" has been shown by several observers to be markedly decreased by treatment with ACTH or cortisone. 1–6 The purpose of this ...

Although fecal hydroxy fatty acids are known to be increased in steatorrhea, we found this increase to be inconstant in different types of steatorrhea. In eight normal subjects, hydroxy acids were ...

Routinely checking for EPI in patients with chronic diarrhea, using fecal elastase, is a useful and effective diagnostic approach with values 100–200 μg/g of stool reflecting mild to moderate ...