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Jaguar Health Announces Online Availability of a Presentation on Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) by Dr. Mohamad Miqdady at Elite Ped-GI Congress in Abu Dhabi
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 22, 2022 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) today announced that a presentation by Dr. Mohamad Miqdady on short bowel
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 22, 2022 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) today announced that a presentation by Dr. Mohamad Miqdady on short bowel syndrome (SBS) at the Elite Ped-GI Congress, which took place May 19-21, 2022 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, is available online. The presentation, titled Short Bowel Syndrome: New Hope in the Horizon, can be accessed by clicking here.Dr. Miqdady is the Division Chief of the Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Division at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), a flagship tertiary hospital in the UAE and the largest teaching medical center in Abu Dhabi. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Khalifa University's medical school, and completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Dr. Miqdady is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Napo Pharmaceuticals, Jaguar's wholly owned U.S. subsidiary.\"Patients with SBS and congenital diarrheal disorders (CDD) suffer from devastating diarrhea and dehydration caused by these debilitating, lifelong orphan diseases for which there is currently no available treatment except parenteral nutrition,\" said Dr. Miqdady.SBS is a complex condition characterized by severe malabsorption of fluids and nutrients due to surgical resection of bowel segments, congenital anomalies, or disease-associated loss of absorption. For SBS patients who endure the catastrophic loss of their bowel, the resulting excessive intestinal fluid output and lifelong restriction and adjustment of oral intake of food and liquids leads to the requirement to receive intravenous fluids for the majority of the day every day (parenteral nutrition). This challenges the ability of SBS patients to carry out activities of daily living and has a significant impact on their daily quality of life. Furthermore, lifelong parenteral nutrition leads to potentially life-threatening complications like sepsis and organ failure.CDDs are a group of inherited chronic enteropathies characterized by heterogeneous etiology, and each type of CDD is thus a different disease with a different pathogenetic mechanism. CDDs share a primary common symptom: chronic diarrhea, and therefore secondary symptoms associated with diarrhea, including significant dehydration, metabolic acidosis or alkalosis an...