Definition
- Gluten-sensitive enteropathy (GSE) is a condition characterized by clinical features of malabsorption and pathologic changes in the jejunal mucosa.
- Both improve when gluten is removed from the diet and recur when it is reintroduced.
- Also known as celiac sprue
- Second-most common cause of malabsorption in children (cystic fibrosis is the most common cause)
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