background and objective: celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder, characterized by inflammation, villous atrophy, and crypt hyperplasia of the small bowel mucosa. in this study we considered and compared sensitivity and specificity of serological tests in patients with celiac disease. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study we prospectively recruited children with suspected celia...

background:â  northeastern iran has a high incidence for squamous cell esophageal carcinoma (escc). the aim of the study is to the assess relationship between celiac disease (cd) and escc. materials and methods:â  this was a two-part, cross-sectional, case-control study performed during 2006-2011 in gonbad, â golestan, iran. serum iga anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody levels were measured f...

background: alopecia areata (aa) is a noncicatricial (nonscarring) alopecia. the association between aa and celiac disease (cd) is debatable. several studies declare the relationship between aa and cd as measurement of celiac autoantibodies (anti‑gliadin iga and anti‑gliadin igg), but a few studies consider anti‑tissue transglutaminase iga. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency di...

BACKGROUND Anti-endomysial antibodies are sensitive and specific markers for celiac disease. This antibody has recently been identified as an antibody to tissue transglutaminase, an enzyme that cross-links and stabilizes extracellular matrix proteins. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinical usefulness of an enzyme-linked immunoassay for anti-transglutaminase antibodies, and to compare the results...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of Celiac disease in Turkish children with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and their non-diabetic first-degree relatives. METHODS Forty-eight children with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (18 males, 30 females; age range: 3.5 to 23 years; mean age: 12.09 +/- 4.78 years), 29 non-diabetic siblings, 40 non-diabetic parents, and 103 he...

Celiac disease is a chronic illness of the small bowel caused by gliadin intolerance in genetically predisposed subjects. The aim of this study was to investigate serum levels of IgA and IgG antigliadin antibodies, IgA antiendomysial antibodies, and IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies in 169 patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases, i.e. chronic thyroiditis and Graves' disease. Antiend...

OBJECTIVE Published studies on the prevalence of celiac disease in type 1 diabetes mellitus from the Arab World are scant. We aim to report the prevalence of celiac disease in Omani children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Children with type 1 diabetes mellitus were prospectively screened for celiac disease, at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman over a period of one year (...

BACKGROUND Aetiopathogenesis of psoriasis is complex and not yet well known. In recent years, it has been observed that psoriasis can coexist with clinically asymptomatic celiac disease and a gluten-free diet helps to obtain remission, even in patients with very chronic lesions. OBJECTIVE The aim of our work was to investigate how often the positive titres of antibodies characteristic for cel...