Review for 10.1186/s12876-018-0784-0 (2018)

Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title:  Celiac Crisis, a rare and profound presentation of Celiac disease: a case report.  
 
Version: 0 Date: 12 Nov 2017 
 
Reviewer:  Muhammed  Mubarak  
 
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The authors present a case of a 43 -year o ld female with celiac crisis complicating celiac disease. 
The crisis was diagnosed after all other potential causes for various abnormalities were excluded. 
It was treated and the patient showed partial response. It is an interesting case and will illumina te 
the medical fraternity but has some shortcomings, as under:  
 
1. Please give exact values of Iron, Vitamin B12, folate, copper and selenium, rather than 
just stating that these were deficient.  
 
2. Please also give values of BP, rather than just stating tha t patient was hypotensive.  
 
3. Give Marsh classification of the duodenal histopathology.  
 
4. Why nasogastric feeding was done? There is no explanation for this.  
 
5. Mucous in 2nd line of discussion is mucosa.  
 
6. Page 6, line 25, blood work is blood work -up. 
 
7. Follow -up period should be mentioned.  
 
8. Number of references should be increased, at least to 7 -8.  
 
9. In figure 1, bone marrow biopsy is actually bone marrow aspirate. Please rectify it and 
same applies to Figure 2.  
 
10. Give the name of stain and magn ification power for figures 3 and 4.  
 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
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Yes 
 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
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Unable to assess  
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
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Yes 
 
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additional statistical review?  
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assessment in your comments to the editors.  
 
Not relevant to this manuscript  
 
Quality of written English  
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Needs some language corrections before being published  
 
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