1. Celiac disease screening in patients with scleroderma
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Renato Nisihara, Shirley Rosa Utiyama, Pedro Ming Azevedo, and Thelma Larocca Skare
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Doença celíaca ,Escleroderma, sistêmico ,Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology ,RC799-869 - Abstract
Both celiac disease and scleroderma have autoimmune etiology and affect the bowel causing diarrhea. As an association of autoimmune disease in a single individual is not rare, it is important to know if a patient with scleroderma may also have celiac disease. To analyze this we studied 105 scleroderma patients and 97 volunteers for IgA-EmA by indirect immunofluorescence assay. We could not find a higher prevalence of this autoantibody in scleroderma patients. The authors conclude that there is no need to screen scleroderma patients with diarrhea for celiac disease unless there is a clear clinical indication for this.
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- 2011
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