Celiac disease is a permanent intolerance to dietary gluten. Its well known features are
abdominal symptoms, malabsorption of nutrients, and small-bowel mucosal inflammation …

Background & Aims: The relationship between celiac disease and many autoimmune
disorders has been explained by the sharing of a common genetic factor. In a multicenter …

Background: Individuals with active celiac disease (CD+) have an increased incidence of
thyroid dysfunction, which improves on a gluten-free diet (CD−). We investigated whether …

The associated diseases in 335 coeliac patients diagnosed 1980-90 were compared with
age and sex matched control patients with various gastrointestinal symptoms. Endocrine …

Medical records of patients with ulcerative colitis (n= 858), Crohn's disease (n= 378) and
coeliac disease (n= 148) were examined to determine the prevalence of associated …

In an attempt to determine the frequency of liver injury in adult cœliac disease (ACD) the
case records of 74 consecutive patients were examined. In 13 cases histological sections of …

The histopathologic features of collagenous colitis were studied in 14 women and one man.
All but one patient presented with chronic watery diarrhea; 10 had a history of thyroid …

Out of 314 patients with coeliac disease, 63 had associated disorders of known or suspected
immunological cause (excluding aphthous stomatitis and dermatitis herpetiformis) …

Evidence for autoimmunity in diarrhoeal disease is reviewed. Firstly, coeliac disease (CD) is
considered. The incidence of tissue‐reactive autoantibodies in both adults and children with …

In the period 1970 to 1987, 171 patients with small-intestinal mucosal atrophy have been
hospitalized in our department. Of these, 132 patients fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of …