[Collagenous sprue: secondary or independent from celiac disease?]. / Esprúe colágeno: ¿entidad secundaria o independiente de la enfermedad celíaca?
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
; 34(4): 333-7, 2014.
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Collagenous sprue is a rare disease that goes with persistent diarrhea, weight loss and bad absortion, because it affects the small intestine, mainly duodenum and proximal jejunum. Diagnosis is made by having clinical signs and histological proof of atrophy and subepitelial deposit of collagenous material. Its etiology is not known completely, it is proposed that the origin is autoimmune because its relationship with celiac disease. Also there is a proposal that is a celiac evolution to gluten free diet. Is because this is not clear that we present a case of a patient with bad absorptive diarrhea and a clinical expression of collagenous sprue, that had a great clinical response to corticosteroids with home parenteral nutrition center.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doença Celíaca
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Espru Colágeno
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
Assunto da revista:
GASTROENTEROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Peru