Co-existing coeliac and inflammatory bowel disease in a patient with Turner's syndrome.

A patient, aged 20, with Turner's syndrome was found to have both coeliac disease and chronic ulcerative colitis. Although a gluten-free diet restored to normal the jejunal biopsy, persisting diarrhoea was found to be due to coexisting left-sided ulcerative colitis. A search of the literature revealed only three detailed reports of chronic inflammatory bowel disease in coeliac patients, one of coeliac disease in Turner's syndrome and three of inflammatory bowel disease in Turner's syndrome. Growth failure with coeliac or inflammatory bowel disease in females, may call for a chromosomal study, even in the absence of webbing of the neck. The reason for three uncommon disorders occurring in this patient remains obscure.