摘要：BECAUSE SUBCLINICAL CELIAC DISEASE MAY DECREASE FERTILITY OR COMPLICATEPREGNANCY, WE SCREENED WOMEN WITH FERTILITY DISORDERS AND WOMEN WITHFUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA, FOR ANTI-TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE ANTIBODIES IN SERUM TO FINDUNDIAGNOSED CELIAC DISEASEMETHOD: WE SCREENED WOMEN WITH RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY (N= 36), UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY (N = 46) AND WOMEN WITH FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA (N = 112),FOR ANTI-TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE ANTIBODIES IN SERUM TO FIND UNDIAGNOSED CELIACDISEASE. ONE WOMAN (2.7%) WITH RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE, TWO WOMEN (4.35%) WITHUNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY AND ONE WOMAN IN THE CONTROL GROUP (0.9%), WERECONSIDERED TO HAVE CELIAC DISEASE. ALL WOMEN WITH POSITIVE SEROLOGIC FINDINGS (4CASES) UNDERWENT JEJUNAL BIOPSY AND OF THEM HAD HISTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF CELIACDISEASE.
