Subclinical celiac disease and gluten sensitivity
Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench,
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2011),
26 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.22037/ghfbb.v4i3.180
Abstract
Atypical presentation is the most common form of celiac disease (CD). Although the terminologies like latent, silent and potential have expressed different aspects of clinical and pathological behaviour of CD, they also have contributed in some extent to confusion between clinicians and patients due to the multiple definitions and uncertainty around them. In the light of new advances and the discovery of entities such as non-celiac gluten sensitivity, using subclinical instead of silent and atypical instead of potential/latent may simplify the understanding behind the clinical behaviour of atypical CD. The evidence behind a lower threshold for considering a gluten free diet (GFD) in non-celiac gluten sensitive patients would strongly support adjusting the terminologies to treatable clinicopathological conditions.
- Subclinical
- Celiac disease
- Atypical
- Microscopic enteritis
- Gluten sensitivity
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