Textbook of Pediatric
Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition

A Comprehensive Guide to Practice

Before focusing on microvillus inclusion disease and tufting
enteropathy, we briefly review similarly presenting entities.

In 1968 Avery, Villavicencio and Lilly were the first to de-
scribe a severe chronic diarrhea in 20 infants and they named

it “infantile intractable diarrhea”; according to their descrip-
tion “(it) was prolonged and intractable despite extensive

hospital therapy”