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Here's an editorial (free) from the new July issue of Gastroenterology and
an abstract on CD and epilepsy:

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Gastroenterology. 2003 Jul;125(1):268.

Collaboration is the key: Identification of a celiac protein.

Nieuwenhuis EE, Furuta GT.

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http://www2.gastrojournal.org/scripts/om.dll/serve?
retrieve=/pii/S0016508503008382&

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Tunis Med. 2003 Apr;81(4):270-2.

[Article in French] [Abstract editted by me for clarity.]

Essid M, Trabelsi K, Jerbi E, Boubaker S, Gorgi Y, Ayed K, Azzouz MM.

Service de Gastro-enterologie-Hopital Mohamed Tahar Maamouri de Nabeul.

Reports of an association between epilepsy and coeliac disease (CD) are not
new. Chapmann reported a prevalence of epilepsy in CD of 5.5% and accepted
a figure of 0.5% for the community. Prevalence of coeliac disease among
epileptic patients is not well established. The aim of this study is to
determine the prevalence of CD in epileptic patients for 49 epileptic
patients (31 male and 28 female) selected between January 96 and June 99
who underwent fibroscopy with intestinal biopsy. Antibodies to gluten were
measured in most patients. The patients with villous atrophy underwent
cranial computed tomography. 4 of 49 patients (8.1%) were identified as
having coeliac disease on the basis of a flat intestinal mucosa with
increasing of LIE. 2 among these 4 patients had recurrent diarrhea. Any
[all of the 4] patient[s] showed cerebral calcification associated with
epilepsy and CD. Only one patient among 4, followed a gluten free-diet with
a significant reduction in seizure frequency. This suggest[s] that CD
should be ruled out [considered] in all case[s] of epilepsy of unexplained
origin.

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