Malabsorption Syndromes

Malabsorption is the defective uptake of one or more dietary nutrients across the small-intestinal mucosa, distinct from maldigestion (defective intraluminal breakdown). For NEET PG, this topic is a dense, fact-rich cluster — coeliac disease, tropical sprue, Whipple disease, lactase deficiency and the steatorrhoea workup — where antibody profiles, biopsy histology, the investigation of choice and drug of choice are r…