What is known?
1.Most of autoimmune inflammatory diseases effect eye.
2.CD is also an autoimmune inflammatory disease that would affect eyes of patients as an extraintestinal finding,
2.CT of pediatric CD patients at gluten free diet for 5 years decreased at subfoveal area.
What is new?
1.Pediatric CD causing thinning of subfoveal, nasal and temporal areas of choroid, and this change is apparent even after one year gluten free diet as an extraintestinal finding of CD in children.
2. Thickneses of GCC layers were similar in CD and control groups may be revealing the effect of diet or these layers are not involved in CD eye findings pathogenesis.