%0 Journal Article
%T Celiac disease screening in patients with scleroderma
%A Nisihara
%A Renato
%A Utiyama
%A Shirley Rosa
%A Azevedo
%A Pedro Ming
%A Skare
%A Thelma Larocca
%J Arquivos de Gastroenterologia
%D 2011
%I Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia - IBEPEGE
%R 10.1590/S0004-28032011000200014
%X 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.
%K celiac disease
%K scleroderma
%K systemic.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-28032011000200014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en