Anaemia in Waldmann’s disease: A rare presentation of a rare disease

Table 2 Causes of protein losing enteropathy[1]

Erosive gastrointestinal disease

Inflammatory bowel disease

Gut malignancy

Non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug enteropathy

Erosive gastropathy

Acute graft vs host disease

Pseudomembranous enterocolitis

Ulcerative jejunoenterocolitis

Intestinal lymphoma

Sarcoidosis

Non erosive gastrointestinal disease

Celiac disease

Hypertrophic gastropathies

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis

Connective tissue disorders

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

Amyloidosis

Microscopic colitis

Tropical sprue

Whipple's disease

Parasitic diseases

Viral gastroenteritis

Increased interstitial pressure

Intestinal lymphangiectasia

Congestive heart failure

Constrictive pericarditis

Congenital heart diseases

Fontan procedure for single ventricle

Portal hypertensive gastroenteropathy

Hepatic venous outflow obstruction

Enteric lymphatic fistula

Mesenteric venous thrombosis

Sclerosing mesenteritis

Mesenteric tuberculosis or sarcoidosis

Neoplasia involving mesenteric lymph nodes or lymphatics

Chronic pancreatitis with pseudocysts

Congenital malformations of lymphatic

Retoperitoneal fibrosis