short bowel syndrome
MONDO:0015183Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names short bowel syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Short bowel syndrome is an intestinal failure due to either a congenital defect, intestinal infarction or extensive surgical resection of the intestinal tract that results in a functional small intestine of less than 200cm in length and is characterized by diarrhea, nutrient malabsoption, bowel dilation and dysmobility.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015183), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (1)
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: short bowel syndrome
- Also called
- short gut syndrome