Children and adolescents with untreated celiac disease display disease-related, histological alterations in the duodenal bulb, according to a new study. In 16 of the 665 patients enrolled in the study ...

Several important advances in the clinical practice of gastroenterology were addressed during this year's Digestive Disease Week (DDW). This review briefly summarizes the relevant concepts that ...

A research team from Spain evaluated the predictive value of tissue transglutaminase (tTG) antibodies for villous atrophy in adult and pediatric populations to determine if duodenal biopsy can be ...

Celiac disease is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by gluten in genetically predisposed individuals (HLA-DQ2/DQ8), with a global seroprevalence of approximately 1.4%. However, only one in four ...

The finding of collagenous encapsulation of Brunner's glands and pathological changes in the muscularis mucosae in a duodenal biopsy from a patient with severe progressive systemic sclerosis prompted ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The positive predictive value of serum anti-tissue transglutaminase IgA was 93.9%. Serum levels of 10 times the ...

A: Celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can coexist, and studies suggest that there is an increased risk of celiac disease in IBD patients. In a small study of 27 patients with newly ...

Heterotopic gastric mucosa (HGM) refers to the occurrence of organized fundic gland tissue of congenital origin. HGM is a well-described entity that occurs in different parts of the gastrointestinal ...

Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an enigmatic disorder of the small intestine that is postulated to play a role in childhood undernutrition, a pressing global health problem. Defining the ...

Duodenal biopsy remains the gold standard for celiac disease (CD) diagnosis. However, it has several pitfalls and requires an invasive procedure in children. In the past few years, a more prominent ...