UNRESPONSIVE ENTEROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH CIRCULATING ENTEROCYTE AUTOANTIBODIES IN A BOY WITH COMMON VARIABLE HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA AND TYPE-I DIABETES
UNRESPONSIVE ENTEROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH CIRCULATING ENTEROCYTE AUTOANTIBODIES IN A BOY WITH COMMON VARIABLE HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA AND TYPE-I DIABETES
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DOI:
10.1097/00005176-198807000-00022
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发表时间:
1988-07-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GIORGI, PL
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作者:
CATASSI, C;MIRAKIAN, R;GIORGI, PL
A 13-year-old boy with common variable hypogammaglobulinemia and type I diabetes developed a severe enteropathy that proved to be unresponsive to any treatment, including total parenteral nutrition. No evidence of known etiologies of malabsorption and/or secretory diarrhea was found in this subject. A high titer of complement-fixing enterocyte autoantibody was persistently found in the patient's serum. These features suggest that the enteropathy of this primarily immunodeficient subject had an autoimmune origin. A cycle of cyclophosphamide failed to show any amelioration of the diarrhea or a significant decrease in the autoantibody titer.