Celiac.com 01/07/2019 - Researchers have made progress in spotting celiac disease without biopsy in children with certain parameters. Can the same be done for adults? A team of researchers recently set out to evaluate the accuracy of serology-based criteria in adults with variable pre-test probabilities for celiac disease. The research team included V Fuchs, K Kurppa, H Huhtala, K Laurila, M Mäki, P Collin, T Salmi, L Luostarinen, P Saavalainen, and K Kaukinen.
New criteria for diagnosing celiac disease in children allow doctors to forgo duodenal biopsies in children who have symptoms, positive blood tests, and celiac disease-associated genes. 
There’s currently no good data on whether such an approach might work for adults with certain clinical presentations of celiac dis...

Celiac.com 01/29/2019 - Serology-based criteria for adult celiac disease have excellent pre-test accuracy, but can they be helpful in spotting celiac disease without biopsy? New criteria for diagnosing celiac disease in children allow doctors to forgo duodenal biopsies in children who have symptoms, positive blood tests, and celiac disease-associated genes. However, there’s currently no good data on whether such an approach might work for adults with certain clinical presentations of celiac disease.
A team of researchers recently set out to evaluate the accuracy of serology-based criteria in adults with variable pre-test probabilities for celiac disease.
The Finnish research team included V Fuchs, K Kurppa, H Huhtala, K Laurila, M Mäki, P Collin, T Salmi, L Luostarinen, P ...

Celiac.com 04/13/2020 - Current guidelines set by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN), permit doctors to diagnose celiac disease without upper endoscopy in children and adolescents who meet specific criteria. 
A team of researchers recently set out to to assess exactly how many pediatric gastroenterologists in Central Europe used the “no-biopsy” approach to make a celiac diagnosis, and how many biopsies could have been avoided. 
The research team included Petra Riznik, Márta Balogh, Piroska Bódi, Luigina De Leo, Jasmina Dolinsek, Ildikó Guthy, Judit Gyimesi, Ágnes Horváth, Ildikó Kis, Martina Klemenak, Berthold Koletzko,0, Sibylle Koletzko,, Ilma Rita Korponay-Szabó,, Tomaz Krencnik, Tarcisio Not, Goran Palcevski, Éva Pollák,...

Celiac.com 09/24/2020 - Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition in which eating wheat, rye, or barley triggers an adverse immune reaction in the gut. Celiac disease affects about one percent of the population. Diagnosis can be a long and arduous process. In the United States, the average person with celiac disease can wait up to ten years from the time of first symptoms to diagnosis. Left undiagnosed, autoimmune disease can cause organ damage and bowel cancer.
Anyone who has ever had to suffer through a long, convoluted process to get their celiac disease diagnosis can now rejoice for any new celiacs going forward. That's because researchers have developed a single blood test that can diagnose celiac disease without biopsy. Until now, the "gold standard" for celiac diagnosis was...