Celiac Disease and Localization-Related Epilepsies

Abstract

The incidence of silent celiac disease (CD) in children with idiopathic localization epilepsies and the indications for routine CD screening were determined in a study of 72 patients (31 girls and 41 boys; mean age 12.6 years; age at onset 6.4 years) observed over a 5 year period at the Institute of Neurology and Gastroenterology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy.

Keywords

• celiac disease
• enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
• childhood partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms