Villous atrophy and negative celiac serology: A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 647-653

  Degaetani, Marisa ^a   Tennyson, Christina A ^a   Lebwohl, Benjamin ^a   Lewis, Suzanne K ^a   Abu Daya, Hussein ^a   Arguelles Grande, Carolina ^a   Bhagat, Govind ^a   Green, Peter H R ^a  

^a Columbia University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ2 ANTIGEN; HLA DQ8 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; OLMESARTAN;

AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CELIAC DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ATROPHY; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; CELIAC DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DUODENUM; FEMALE; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 84877298365     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2013.45     Document Type: Article

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