New tool to improve coeliac diagnosis.

Australian Doctor,  April, 2007  

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By Gabrielle Babbington

BMJ A highly sensitive clinical tool for diagnosing coeliac disease should improve the condition's low detection rates, a large prospective study finds.

The clinical tool combined stratifying patients into high-risk and low-risk groups according to symptoms with transglutaminase antibody serology and -- when needed -- duodenal biopsy.

UK researchers evaluated the tool prospectively on 2000 adult patients and found it could detect all cases of coeliac disease without biopsying every symptomatic patient.

They said although coeliac disease affected ...

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