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Ped Health Res 2017
General Pediatrics 2017
September 25-27, 2017
September 25-27, 2017 Chicago, USA
14
th
World Congress on
General Pediatrics & Adolescent medicine
Celiac disease: Silent disease
Virginia Baez Socorro
Case Western Reserve University, USA
C
eliac disease is a genetic autoimmune disorder where the ingestion of wheat gliadin and related prolamines leads to damage
of the small Bowel. Celiac Disease (CD) affects approximately 1% (1/100) people worldwide and 1.5 million Americans are
undiagnosed. If first-degree relative with celiac, there is 1:10 risk of developing the disease. Celiac disease can be difficult to be
diagnosed because there is a variety of symptoms and also more than 40% of people with celiac could be asymptomatic. Some of the
symptoms in children would be abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, constipation, weight loss, failure to thrive, fatigue, short stature,
delay puberty, etc. Celiac disease can be screen with blood test like Tissue tranglutaminase IgA but the definite diagnosis can be done
with upper endoscopy. Treatment nowadays is still a gluten free diet.
Biography
Virginia Baez Socorro has studied her Medicine at the Luis Razetti School of Medicine in the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She has worked as a General Physician
in Venezuela before completing her Pediatric Residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She then completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Gastro-
enterology at UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH, USA. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
and the Co-Director of the Eosinophilic Esophagitis program at UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. In addition to Eosinophilic Esophagitis, her interests include
inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease.
virginia.baezsocorro@uhhospitals.orgVirginia Baez Socorro, Ped Health Res 2017, 2:3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2817-C1-002