Syndromic diarrhoea

Syndromic diarrhoea (SD), also known as phenotypic diarrhoea (PD) or tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome (THE), is a congenital enteropathy presenting with early-onset of severe diarrhoea requiring parenteral nutrition (PN), associated with facial dysmorphism, woolly and poorly pigmented hair and liver disease, with extensive fibrosis or cirrhosis, in about half of the patients.