Celiac disease: case report with an associated arthropathy.

Abstract

A case is presented of a patient with biopsy documented celiac disease who presented with an acute arthropathy along with symptoms of malabsorption. The etiology of the arthropathy could not be determined; however, the temporal relationship of the presenting manifestations (i.e., malabsorption and the arthropathy) as well as lack of further gastrointestinal of joint symptoms after 2 yr of follow-up suggest that in this case the arthropathy was related to the patient's celiac disease. Possible pathogenetic mechanisms for this heretofore unreported relationship are also presented.