Celiac disease prevalence in epileptic children from Serbia.

Three patients with epilepsy were positive for IgA tTG antibodies. In all of them, small bowel biopsy was performed, and only one was proven to have CD by histopathology (Marsh IIIa grade). The prevalence of biopsy-proven CD in children with epilepsy was not significantly higher in the study group compared to controls (0.8% vs.0.6%, p>0.05). The results of this study indicate that children with idiopathic epilepsy from our region should not be routinely tested for CD.