Annalisa Schiepatti, David S Sanders, Imran Aziz, Annalisa De Silvestri, John Goodwin, Tim Key, Lydia Quaye, Paolo Giuffrida, Alessandro Vanoli, Marco Paulli, Simon S Cross, Patricia Vergani, Elena Betti, Gregorio Maiorano, Richard Ellis, John A Snowden, Antonio Di Sabatino, Gino R Corazza, Federico Biagi
OBJECTIVE: Causes of small-bowel villous atrophy (VA) include coeliac disease (CD), its complications and other rare non-coeliac enteropathies. However, forms of VA of unknown aetiology may also exist. We defined them as idiopathic VA (IVA). To retrospectively classify the largest cohort of IVA patients and compare their natural history with CD. METHODS: Notes of 76 IVA patients attending two tertiary centres between January 2000 and March 2019 were retrospectively reviewed...
April 10, 2020: European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology