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====Other Tests====
====Other Tests====
*Faeacal α1-proteinase inhibitor concentrations may be used to confirm protein-losing enteropathy
*Faeacal α1-proteinase inhibitor concentrations or chromium 51-labelled albumin may be used to confirm protein-losing enteropathy.
===Diagnostic Imaging===
===Diagnostic Imaging===
====Ultrasound====
Abdominal ultrasonography may reveal pleural fluid or ascites as well as help to narrow down other differential diagnoses. Mucosa of intestinal loops may appear thickened due to oedema.
Abdominal ultrasonography may reveal pleural fluid or ascites as well as help to narrow down other differential diagnoses. Mucosa of intestinal loops may appear thickened due to oedema.
====Endoscopy====
Tips of the villi may be distended with chyle, which appear like the presence of white lipid droplets with prominent mucosal blebs.