Affiliation:
1. Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology B J Wadia Hospital for Children Mumbai India
2. Seth G S Medical College Mumbai India
Abstract
AbstractAutoimmune enteropathy is a rare cause of chronic intractable diarrhea and is present in <1 in 100,000 infants. We report the case of a 9‐month‐old boy who presented with intractable diarrhea and vomiting. Genetic panel testing revealed a STAT3 heterozygous mutation in exon 6, suggesting infantile‐onset multisystem autoimmune disease‐1. The patient was initially treated with steroids and sulfasalazine. However, on tapering steroids, he had another episode of diarrhea and was subsequently put on baricitinib to which he responded.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science