RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Copper deficiency as a cause of neutropenia in a case of coeliac disease
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr2016214874
DO 10.1136/bcr-2016-214874
VO 2016
A1 Daisy Khera
A1 Baldev Sharma
A1 Kuldeep Singh
YR 2016
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2016/bcr-2016-214874.abstract
AB We report a 17 year-old male patient, who presented with chronic diarrhoea, progressive pallor, short stature, anaemia (haemoglobin of 4.9 g/dL) and neutropenia and was diagnosed as coeliac disease. His neutropenia did not respond to 8 months of gluten-free diet, iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 therapy. So we suspected copper deficiency and his serum copper levels were tested, which was low. His neutrophil counts normalised after 2 months of copper supplementation. Hence we concluded that the cause of neutropenia in our case was copper deficiency.