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Does Clinical Nihilism affect the diagnostic approach for patients with undiagnosed adult coeliac disease? A UK Multicentre study

2020-09-01 gastroenterology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundAdult coeliac disease (CD) has delays in diagnosis but the reasons for this have not been explored. MethodsGroup 1) Time from primary care presentation to diagnostic endoscopy was prospectively quantified in 151 adult patients with a positive endomysial antibody test and compared with the diagnostic pathway of 92 adult patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Group 2) Across 4 hospitals over a 3-month period, duodenal biopsy reports for suspected CD were reviewed (n=1...

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