Article
Contributions of HLA haplotypes, IL8 level and Toxoplasma gondii infection in defining celiac disease's phenotypes.
BMC gastroenterology - 18 May 2018
Rostami-Nejad Mohammad, Hejazi Seyed Hossein, Peña Amado Salvador, Asadzadeh-Aghdaei Hamid, Rostami Kamran, Volta Umberto, Zali Mohammad Reza
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is not clear why some patients with coeliac disease (CD) present with severe symptoms and small intestinal mucosal damages while others present with milder symptoms and no frank enteropathy. There is no study to assess the associated factors with mild/severe symptoms and enteropathy. The terminologies like latent, silent and potential are difficult to use and are unrepresentative. In the present...
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