Chronic Constipation in the Patient with Celiac Disease

Abstract

Celiac or gluten enteropathy is a common disease of western and eastern communities which has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations that varies from an asymptomatic person to a typical malabsorbtion with chronic diarrhea. If physicians are not familiar with this wide spectrum of the disease presentation because of lack of appropriate laboratory test diagnosis of the disease could delay. Here we reported 27 years old women with a chief complaint of worsening chronic constipation in recent months. Further studies diagnosed the patient as a case of celiac disease and with receiving the treatment the majority of symptoms were controlled.

Keywords: Celiac, Constipation, Iron deficiency anemia