Ulcerative ileojejunitis associated with pulmonary fibrosis and polymyositis
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M O Coupe1, M L Barnard, G Stamp
1Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, England.
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
Ulcerative ileojejunitis is a rare condition. We describe a patient who developed this on a background of longstanding celiac disease. Long-term remission has been maintained on corticosteroids. Recently polymyositis and an inflammatory alveolitis have developed, both responding to a higher dose of prednisolone. Relationships between celiac disease and ulcerative ileojejunitis, polymyositis and fibrosing alveolitis have been previously described, and it is of interest that an auto-immune pathophysiology has been implicated in each of these conditions.