Celiac Disease Hiding Behind Cerebral White Matter Lesions: A Case Report

Mohammed Elhassan^1, and Guha Venkatraman²

¹Department of Medicine, University of California in San Francisco (UCSF)/Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA

²Department of Medicine, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ, USA

Cite this paper:
Mohammed Elhassan and Guha Venkatraman. Celiac Disease Hiding Behind Cerebral White Matter Lesions: A Case Report. International Journal of Celiac Disease. 2017; 5(2):81-82. doi: 10.12691/ijcd-5-2-3

Abstract

Celiac disease, or celiac enteropathy, is a relatively common autoimmune disease with myriad of presentations, including intestinal and extra-intestinal manifestations. It is also a less common cause of cerebral white matter lesions in the absence of other etiologies. If such patients are symptomatic, diagnosis can be challenging, especially when gastrointestinal symptoms are absent. The differential diagnosis in such cases is wide and high index of suspicion is needed to make the diagnosis. We presented a case of celiac disease who presented with neurological symptoms and white matter lesions in brain magnetic resonance imaging without gastrointestinal symptoms.

Keywords:
celiac disease leukoencephalopathies

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