Dilated cardiomyopathy in celiac disease. Although celiac disease is primarily an intestinal compromise, increasingly finds its relation to other systemic illnesses as autoimmune thyroid disease, diabetes and lupus erythematosus.
On the other hand, doctors have found a high prevalence of celiac disease in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, and in most cases the patients did not show the classic symptoms of the condition.
The profuse diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss were not overlapping symptoms in the patient group studied, but did have in common a picture of refractory iron deficiency anemia.
In some of the patients had progressive heart failure, and the rest was found the presence of myocarditis associated with ventricular arrhythmias, and is therefore the suspicion arises that celiac disease is closely linked with these cardiac abnormalities, being indispensable immunological studies in people that suffer. (more…)