Patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus have a high prevalence of coeliac disease, symptoms of which are often mild, atypical, or absent. Untreated coeliac disease is associated with an increased risk of malignancy, particularly of lymphoma. Therefore, we report a 9-year-old girl with Coeliac disease, diabetes type 1 and Selective IgA deficiency. A 9-year-old female patient presented in august 2...

patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus have a high prevalence of coeliac disease, symptoms of which are often mild, atypical, or absent. untreated coeliac disease is associated with an increased risk of malignancy, particularly of lymphoma. therefore, we report a 9-year-old girl with coeliac disease, diabetes type 1 and selective iga deficiency. a 9-year-old female patient presented in august 2...

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coeliac disease (cd) is an autoimmune disorder which leads to chronic inflammation of the gut. untreated cd is associated with upper gastrointestinal malignancies, small-bowel lymphoma and adenocarcinoma are recognized complications of untreated coeliac disease (cd). we report the case of a 43-year-old male suffering from cd who was treated with a gluten-free diet one year,  presenting with com...

tolerable gluten thresholds in gluten free products have long been debated together with issues of cross contamination of gluten free cereals during the milling process. it is well established that a totally gluten free diet is virtually impossible owing to the presence of traces of gluten. it is estimated that daily consumption of gluten from contaminated gluten free foods is in the range of 5...

following the application of simple serological tests for the diagnosis of coeliac disease (cd) in the 1980s, it gradually became clear that the prevalence of cd in different countries in the middle east, north africa and india is almost the same as that in western countries. the prevalence of cd in at-risk populations in these regions is reported to range between 3 and 20% and the prevalence i...

aim : to assess the clinical characteristic of cd as well as correlation of symptoms and the degrees of intestinal mucosal lesions in iranian children. background : microscopic enteritis (marsh 0-ii) is associated with malabsorption. patients and methods : from august 2005 to september 2009, 111 cases with malabsorption and classical gastrointestinal symptoms were evaluated. results : the mean ...

BACKGROUND Coexistent primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and coeliac disease has been recorded but the association has not been systematically studied. AIMS To determine relative prevalences of PBC and coeliac disease in a defined population over a 12 year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients with PBC or coeliac disease in a stable population of 250,000 in South Wales were identified from...

BACKGROUND Coeliac disease is associated with an increased risk of lymphoma and small bowel malignancy, but most studies have found no increased risk of colorectal cancer. AIM To compare the prevalence of colorectal adenomas in coeliac disease patients with that in non-coeliac disease controls. METHODS We identified all coeliac disease patients who underwent colonoscopy at our institution d...