The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of isolated short stature as a clinical presentation of celiac disease in Saudi Arab children and whether some of the routine laboratory tests performed to determine the cause of short stature could suggest the diagnosis of celiac disease. A total of 91 children with short stature were included in the study. Extensive endocrine and biochemical a...

British Journal of General Practice, June 2013 e426 BaCkground and advantages over exIstIng teChnology Coeliac disease is a malabsorption syndrome precipitated by gluten ingestion, and characterised by inflammation of the small intestine. Serological tests for IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody (tTGA) and anti-endomysial antibody (EMA) have high sensitivity and specificity for coeliac di...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Serological screening enables us to detect patients of celiac disease (CD) before they develop serious complications. This study was planned to assess the prevalence of CD in the family members of index cases by serological screening. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted on 50 children diagnosed to be having CD. Serological screening of the family me...

BACKGROUND The possible relationship between psoriasis and coeliac disease (CD) has been attributed to the common pathogenic mechanisms of the two diseases and the presence of antigliadin antibodies in patients has been reported to increase the incidence of CD. OBJECTIVE The aim of this report was to study CD-associated antibodies serum antigliadin antibody immunoglobulin (Ig)A, IgG, anti-end...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to validate the celiac disease diagnoses recorded in the Danish National Patient Register. To validate the diagnoses, we used information on duodenal biopsies from a national register of pathology reports (the Patobank) and information on celiac disease-specific antibodies and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotypes obtained from patient medical records. ...

OBJECTIVE To report a patient with coeliac disease (CD) associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) who presented with myopathy without classical symptoms of CD. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 42-year-old woman presented with inability to walk and marked loss of motor function. She had elevated liver enzymes with a cholestatic pattern. Antimitochondrial antibody M2 band, anti-en...

BACKGROUND Autoantibodies against pancreatic secretory-granule membrane glycoprotein 2 (GP2) have been demonstrated in patients with Crohn's disease but recently also with celiac disease (CD). Both entities are characterized by intestinal barrier impairment with increased gut permeability. Pathophysiological hallmark of CD is a permanent loss of tolerance to alimentary gliadin and a transient l...

Because coeliac disease often presents atypically it is underdiagnosed. It is suggested that the detection rate may be increased by 12% if serology is used to identify cases of occult enteropathy. All adults noted incidentally to be R1 anti-reticulin antibody (ARA) positive in the course of routine autoantibody testing of 6532 sera over one year were followed. None of the eight patients with se...