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Screening for celiac disease in patients with chronic liver disease

2003

Dear Sir:We read with interest the paper of Kaukinen et al. reporting anelevated frequency of celiac disease (CD) (4.3%) in patients with previousliver transplantation due to severe hepatic dysfunction.1However, wewould like to report our experience of the serologic assays for CDdiagnosis in patients with chronic liver disease and comment on thescreening methods for CD used in that study. Between January andOctober 2001, we studied 96 consecutive subjects (65 male, 31 female,age range 18–87 years, median 42) with chronic hypertransaminasemiawho were attending for thefirst time the outpatients clinic for liverdisease at the Internal Medicine Division of the University Hospital ofPalermo. All…