A team of researchers recently set out to see if they could use predictive values of transglutaminase (tTG) antibodies to diagnose celiac disease in kids, without performing duodenal biopsy.
The research team included MA Aldaghi, SM Dehghani, and M Haghighat, of the Department of Pediatrics at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, Iran.
For their study, the team selected patients with likely celiac disease, who had been referred to a gastrointestinal clinic. The team first conducted physical examinations of the patients and performed tissue transglutaminase-immunoglobulin A (tTG-IgA) tests. For patients with serological titers higher than 18 IU/mL, the t...
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