Less than one-third of these patients had evidence of celiac serology results in the medical record, and even in patients with pre-biopsy testing the majority were serologically negative (Table 1).

The gold standard for definitive diagnosis of celiac disease is positive serology for IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase (tTG) and IgA endomysial antibodies in the duodenal plan. Untreated celiac ...

Background. A 62-year-old postmenopausal woman with a family history of breast cancer, mild gastroesophageal reflux disease, iron-deficient anemia and declining BMD was seen in a specialist center ...

Given the high sensitivity and specificity of serologic testing, one would expect to find a fairly high diagnostic yield in duodenal biopsies for celiac disease. In a population with a disease ...