Coagulopathy as initial manifestation of concomitant celiac disease and cystic fibrosis: a case report

Aco Kostovski; Nikolina Zdraveska

doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-116

Coagulopathy as initial manifestation of concomitant celiac disease and cystic fibrosis: a case report

Journal

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Date Issued

2011-03-24

Author(s)

DOI

10.1186/1752-1947-5-116

Abstract

Celiac disease and cystic fibrosis have many common manifestations, such as malabsorption, steatorrhea and growth failure, and were for many years recognized as one clinical entity. Since their recognition as two separate diseases, their co-existence in a patient has been described sporadically; around 20 cases have been described in the literature. Taking into consideration the incidences of the two diseases, the chance of them occurring together is one in 2,000,000 in the general population.