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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2008 Oct 8;136(1):99–353. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.10.013

TABLE 2.

Cause of death in patients with refractory celiac disease

Cause of death Refractory Celiac
Disease Type I
(n=8)
Refractory Celiac
Disease Type II
(n=7)
Refractory state itself 5 0
Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma 0 6
Other celiac disease-related 0 0
Other celiac disease-unrelated 3* 1**
*

Giant cell myocarditis, progressive Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease-like neurologic disorder, invasive aspergillosis

**

Unexplained multiple organ failure