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Elevated serum aminotransferase activity as an early manifestation of gluten-sensitive enteropathy
P Vajro1, A Fontanella, M Mayer
1Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, II Faculty of Medicine, University of Naples, Italy.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
Six children in whom long-standing hypertransaminasemia of unknown cause led to an initial diagnosis of chronic or protracted cryptogenic hepatitis were found to have asymptomatic celiac disease. Administration of a gluten-free diet caused a prompt improvement of both hepatic and intestinal biochemical/histologic abnormalities. Hepatic damage may be another "atypical" form of celiac disease in children.