[Expert Solution]: A patient who is experiencing hypotension…

A patient who is experiencing hypotension and disseminated intravascular coagulation due to a bacterial blood stream infection develops hyponatremia and hyperkalemia. For a very prolonged period of time, the patient’s mean arterial blood pressure did not increase with the administration of intravenous fluids or an epinephrine infusion. While recovering from this illness, enteral feeding of an age-appropriate formula via nasogastric tube triggered severe diarrhea. Of the following, which is the most likely explanation for the patient’s severe diarrhea? Sick euthyroid syndrome Necrosis of intestinal brush border Inflammatory bowel disease Acute bacterial gastroenteritis