Suneil A Raju, Emily A Greenaway, Annalisa Schiepatti, Giovanni Arpa, Nicoletta Vecchione, Chao LA Jian, Charlotte Grobler, Margherita Maregatti, Olivia Green, Freya J Bowker-Howell, Mohamed G Shiha, Hugo A Penny, Simon S Cross, Carolina Ciacci, Kamran Rostami, Shokoufeh Ahmadipour, Afshin Moradi, Mohammad Rostami-Nejad, Federico Biagi, Umberto Volta, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Benjamin Lebwohl, Peter Hr Green, Suzanne Lewis, Javier Molina-Infante, Pilar Mata-Romero, Valentina Vaira, Luca Elli, Irfan Soykan, Arzu Ensari, David S Sanders
BACKGROUND: Ultra-short coeliac disease (USCD) is defined as villous atrophy only present in the duodenal bulb (D1) with concurrent positive coeliac serology. We present the first, multicentre, international study of patients with USCD. METHODS: Patients with USCD were identified from 10 tertiary hospitals (6 from Europe, 2 from Asia, 1 from North America and 1 from Australasia) and compared with age-matched and sex-matched patients with conventional coeliac disease...
March 18, 2024: Gut