We report two infants with celiac crisis who continued to have persistent secretory diarrhea despite gluten and lactose free diet and supportive parenteral nutrition. The children were given corticosteroid therapy. After a five-day oral prednisone in the dose of 2 mg/kg/daily, both patients rapidly recovered.
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Intern Med J
July 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Indian Pediatr
September 2024
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Objective: To assess the prevalence and predictors of splenic dysfunction in children with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between June 2019 and December 2020 where children aged 1 to 15 years of age with SCD were screened for splenic dysfunction. Children who were splenectomised, those with other diseases known to affect splenic function like congenital malformations, immunodeficiencies, and chronic diseases like tuberculosis, nephrotic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, chronic liver disease, celiac disease or malignancy were excluded.
Celiac crisis (CC) is a rare complication of celiac disease (CD), usually observed in younger children with unrecognized CD or poor compliance with a gluten-free diet (GFD). We present a case of celiac crisis in a 3-year-old girl who was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. She was referred to our clinic with anasarca, tetany, and severe malnutrition, with hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypoalbuminemia.
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December 2023
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy/ Epidemiology and Health Science Research Laboratory, Hassan II University Hospital, Fez, MAR.
Advances in the field of celiac disease have led to a better understanding of the disease, but it remains underdiagnosed and poses a daily challenge to clinicians to make a timely diagnosis. This study aims to analyze and describe diagnosis characteristics, diagnosis delay, and the factors influencing this delay in Moroccan children. Our study included 324 children diagnosed during the study period from January 01, 2010, to December 30, 2019, at the Department of Pediatrics, Hassan II University Hospital in Fez, Morocco.
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August 2023
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, USA.
Introduction Constipation is a common condition in children, affecting almost one-third of the population at some point in childhood across the world. Functional constipation is the most common cause, with no clear etiology. From April 25, 2014, through October 16, 2015, the water source for the city of Flint residents was untreated Flint River water, which resulted in lead-contaminated drinking water.
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