Celiac Disease – A Case Series from North India

Celiac Disease – A Case Series from North India: Author’s Reply

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To the Editor: I thank you for going critically through our letter to editor entitled BCeliac disease -a case series from North India^published online [1].I agree to authors' observation that there is no mention of asymptomatic high risk group in our series. Ours was a retrospective study wherein we collected records from endoscopy software which has a limited space where the most prominent symptoms were entered.

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“…We have not included the details of this group in our letter in view of the word limit [1]. The histology in this group was normal in 1, Marsh 2 in 2, Marsh 3 in 48.…”

“…To the Editor: I thank you for going critically through our letter to editor entitled BCeliac disease -a case series from North India^published online [1].…”

Lane Hamilton Syndrome

“…Indians have much varied/ atypical presentations of CD, for example, anemia and short stature are more common in Indians than Western children [2]. The described syndrome may be a varied presentation of CD.…”

“…Furthermore, suspicion for both components of the syndrome is very low despite higher disease prevalence (1%) of CD in North India [2]. This leads to unnecessary delay in primary diagnosis and counter productively permanent short stature as in the index case.…”