Maurizio Gabrielli, Marcello Candelli, Filippo Cremonini, Veronica Ojetti, Luca Santarelli, Enrico C Nista, Eleonora Nucera, Domenico Schiavino, Giampiero Patriarca, Giovanni Gasbarrini, Paolo Pola, Antonio Gasbarrini
Idiopathic chronic urticaria (ICU) is a chronic relapsing cutaneous disease. Some case reports or studies on small series of celiac disease (CD) patients have suggested a possible association between CD and ICU. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of CD in a population of adults ICU patients with respect to healthy controls. We consecutively enrolled 80 patients affected by ICU and 264 blood donors as the control population without a history of ICU. Serum anti-transglutaminase IgG and anti-endomysium IgA antibodies were evaluated in all subjects...
September 2005: Digestive Diseases and Sciences