title: Celiac crisis with hypokalemic paralysis in a young lady.
abstract: Celiac crisis presents as severe acute diarrhea with life-threatening metabolic derangement in a patient with celiac disease. We report a 30-year-old lady who was admitted with one-month history of worsening small bowel-type diarrhea. She developed acute quadriparesis due to refractory hypokalemia. Celiac disease was diagnosed on the basis of positive serology and histological features. She improved with aggressive correction of hypokalemia and gluten-free diet. Celiac crisis is a rare presentation of this heterogeneous disease in adulthood.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Center, Mumbai 400 016, India.
authors.forename: Tarun
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Ameet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mandot
authors.forename: Devendra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Joshi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007008:Hypokalemia / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D010243:Paralysis / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome