PubMed · 14837134
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K ROETZER. 1951. [Celiac rickets].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14837134/
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BACKGROUND: Celiac disease, or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is a strongly inherited condition. Although the genetic association of CD with the DQ2 and DQ8 HLA haplotypes has been known for long, others HLA and non-HLA genes are also important in the development of the disease. Celiac disease results of the combined effect of different normally functioning genes' products. The tissue damage in celiac disease is immunologically mediated and several effector mechanisms are responsible for the disease expression. The interplay between genetic, immunological and environmental factors explains the large spectrum of clinical, histological and serological alterations observed in the different stages of the disease development, pointing out to the polygenic nature of celiac disease. CONCLUSION: The recent advances in the understanding of the immunopathogenesis, genetics and diagnoses of celiac disease have allowed the revision of strict concepts and previous criteria and their adequation to the new evidences, aiming a better diagnostic and orientation to celiac patients and relatives.
BACKGROUND: Celiac disease is a gluten-induced disease of global malabsorption. There is a subset of patients with celiac disease who are free of major symptoms but who have typical damage to the intestinal mucosa (silent disease). We present the case of a 50-year-old white woman with no clinical symptoms of celiac disease who developed diarrhea and weight loss 12 weeks after a pancreatoduodenectomy for ampullary cancer. METHODS: Microbiological and biochemical examination of the feces did not provide clues useful to diagnosis, and diarrhea was not affected by pancreatic enzyme replacement or administration of antiperistaltic drugs. RESULTS: Review of the pathologic specimen and blood tests were compatible with celiac disease. CONCLUSION: This clinical scenario illustrates that subclinical celiac disease may be an underdiagnosed cause of malabsorption after major upper gastrointestinal surgery and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of diarrhea after pancreatoduodenectomy.
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