[Celiac disease, cerebral venous thrombosis and protein S deficiency, a fortuitous association?].
BACKGROUND
Celiac disease is a pathology which is rarely associated with thrombosis complications. Cerebral vascular thrombosis has never been described in patients with a celiac disease.


METHODS
We report an observation of a 21-year-old girl with a history of celiac disease who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit for convulsive status epilepticus secondary to a cerebral venous thrombosis. The etiologic investigation of this thrombo-embolic complication revealed protein S deficit. Our patient improved under symptomatic treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
This original observation confirms that celiac disease can be associated with cerebral venous thrombosis.
Bahloul
M
M
Service de réanimation médicale, CHU Habib Bourguiba, Route el Ain Km 1, 3029 Sfax, Tunisie. bahloulmab@yahoo.fr
Chaari
A
A
Khlaf-Bouaziz
N
N
Kallel
H
H
Chaari
L
L
Ben Hamida
C
C
Chelly
H
H
Rekik
N
N
Bouaziz
M
M
D000328:Adult; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000150:complications*; D002550:Cerebral Veins; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018455:Protein S Deficiency / Q000150:complications*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy