title: Chronic urticaria and celiac disease: a case report.
abstract: We describe a case of a 9-year-old girl who presented chronic urticaria associated with celiac disease. The prevalence of the manifestation of chronic urticaria in celiac disease is unknown but increase in atopic immunologic disorders has been reported in the setting of gluten enteropathy. Relationship between the clinical manifestations is not clear. The present case of subclinical celiac disease diagnosis in an otherwise asymptomatic child with chronic urticaria further reinforces the evidence that differential for celiac disease warrants to be always considered in children with refractory urticaria.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Pediatrica Università di Verona, Verona, Italy. peroni.diego@tiscalinet.it
authors.forename: Diego G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Peroni
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paiola
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tenero
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fornaro
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bodini
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pollini
authors.forename: Giorgio L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Piacentini
mesh_terms: D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D014581:Urticaria / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology