eng Science and Education Publishing International Journal of Celiac Disease 2334-3486 2019-12-04 7 3 90 91 10.12691/ijcd-7-3-5 IJCD2019735 article Uttayan Chakrabarti uttayanchakrabarti@gmail.com 1 Manisha Bais Thakur 1 Ashish Goel 1 Department of Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder induced by dietary gluten, characterized by a chronic inflammatory state of the small intestinal mucosa, resulting in villous atrophy that resolves with gluten free diet. A small number have classical symptoms and the majority present as atypical celiac disease with absent or few GI symptoms. Celiac crisis is a rare life threatening complication of celiac disease which needs prompt recognition and intervention. We report a rare case of Celiac disease which presented as Celiac crisis with hypokalemic quadriparesis. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/7/3/5/ijcd-7-3-5.pdf celiac crisis hypokalemic paralysis