Celiac disease as a potential cause of idiopathic portal hypertension: a rare clinico-pathologic entity
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2015, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Celiac disease is an autoimmune-based digestive disease and it is an immune-mediated enteropathy due to the ingestion of a gluten containing diet. Individuals predisposed to risk are genetically predetermined. Symptoms of the disease at a large usually start at the very early part of life just after weaning, however, a small group of patient present late we called it ‘latent celiac sprue”. We present a rare case of young patient having celiac disease with symptomatic idiopathic portal hypertension.
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Dr. K. C. Das, Dr. Navjot Singh, Dr. Sumeet David, Dr. Nitin and Dr. Rohit Masih
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