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The intestinal malabsorption pattern of 50 male patients suffering from infective hepatitis was studied. A total of 78 per cent had faecal fat excretion of greater than seven grams per day, while the D Xylose absorption was normal. There was no correlation between the severity of the clinical illness, serum levels of bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase or transaminases and the steatorrhoea. Jejunal mucosal biopsies from a site immediately distal to the duodeno-jejunal ftexure showed only three with abnormal changes. This finding shows that there is no characteristic jejunal mucosal change in infective hepatitis and that the steatorrhoea is unrelated to intestinal mucosal change.
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