Clinical aspects of celiac disease in children in Albania
Introduction: Coeliac disease is an autoimmune mediated enteropathy. It initiatesin genetically susceptible individuals upon ingestion of proline and glutamine proteins, commonly found in wheat, barley and ray. CD is perhaps the only multifactorial autoimmune disease where the antigenic trigger is well known and studied. In our study we have evaluated the clinical, laboratory, histopathology data as well as anthropometric measurements of 112 children diagnosed with CD.