Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 5
Letter to the Editor
Sprue-like enteropathy linked to olmesartan

292-293

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4140/2015

Amaia Campos Ruiz, Leire Urtasun Arlegui, Carlos Marra-López Valenciano,

Abstract
Olmesartan is a therapy used for the management of hypertension available since 2002. A sprue like enteropathy associated with olmesartan has been first described in 2012. Endoscopic and histopathological findings are partial or total villous atrophy, mimicking a Celiac Disease. We explain two cases diagnosed in our hospital. Both patients took more than one year of treatment with olmesartan. In both cases, the biopsy showed duodenal villous atrophy, negative serology for celiac disease and they improved after stopping treatment with olmesartan. Olmesartan associate sprue-like enteropathy should be included in the differential diagnosis of seronegative villous atrophy. After the discontinuation of olmesartan, clinical remission usually occurs in every patients.
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Publication history

Received: 03/12/2015

Accepted: 18/12/2015

Online First: 29/02/2016

Published: 29/04/2016

Article Online First time: 88 days

Article editing time: 148 days


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