Cutaneous vasculitis complicating coeliac disease.

Cutaneous vasculitis complicating coeliac disease.

A 38 year old female, with chronic uncontrolled coeliac disease, presented with the rare complication of cutaneous leucocytoclastic vasculitis. Detailed study failed to identify any cause for the vasculitis, other than the underlying coeliac disease. Haematuria and proteinuria with mesangial nephritis were also demonstrated on renal biopsy with electron microscopic study. It is speculated that ...

Coeliac disease, vasculitis, and cryoglobulinaemia.

Four patients are described with the association of adult coeliac disease, vasculitis, and cryoglobulinaemia. In each patient the cryoglobulinaemia was of the mixed type consisting of more than one immunoglobulin class. It is suggested that the mixed cryoglobulins represent circulating immune complexes and that their deposition in small vessels causes the vasculitis. This is supported by immuno...

Malignant histiocytosis and encephalomyeloradiculopathy complicating coeliac disease.

A 62 year old Irish woman with an eight year history of probable coeliac disease developed brain stem signs, unilateral facial numbness and weakness, wasting and anaesthesia in both lower limbs. Over the next two years, a progressive deterioration in neurological function and in intestinal absorption, and the development of anaemia led to a suspicion of malignancy. Bone marrow biopsy revealed m...

Adenocarcinoma of the upper small bowel complicating coeliac disease.

Adenocarcinoma of the small intestine complicating coeliac disease is uncommon. Only 14 cases have been reported, and in only one of these was a jejunal biopsy carried out more than eight months before the diagnosis of malignancy. We describe four more patients with this association, all with long histories of coeliac disease, confirmed in three by jejunal biopsy over five years before the diag...

Cutaneous Vasculitis