Extracellular Calcium Dictates Onset, Severity, and Recovery of Diarrhea in a Child with Immune-Mediated Enteropathy

• Main Authors: Johnathan Fraebel (Author), Regino Gonzalez-Peralta (Author), Maryann Maximos (Author), Genie L. Beasley (Author), Christopher Douglas Jolley (Author), Sam Xianjun Cheng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Diarrhea causes monovalent and divalent ion losses that can influence clinical outcome. Unlike the losses of monovalent ions, such as Na+, K+, Cl−, and HCO3−, which are generally large in quantity (osmoles) and therefore determine the severity of diarrhea, the losses of divalent ions are relatively...