Meeting abstract
https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-145-supl8-29
Generalized edema as an atypical clinical manifestation in a pedia-tric patient with celiac disease
Zvonimir Marko Škugor
Zrinjka Mišak
Abstract
Generalized edema is systemic soft tissue swelling produced by the expansion of the inter-stitial fluid volume caused by various etiopathologies. Celiac disease is a lifelong systemic autoimmune disorder, elicited by gluten and related prolamins in genetically susceptible individuals. This case report describes a pediatric patient with celiac disease who presen-ted with atypical extraintestinal symptoms
Keywords
celiac disease, generalized edema, malnutrition
Hrčak ID:
314452
URI
Publication date:
22.2.2024.
Visits: 118 *