( Studying the correlation between the grade of villous atrophy with each of the severity of the clinical manifestations, and the titres of IgA anti- tissue transglutaminase antibodies in adults with celiac disease)


Abstract in English

Celiac disease is a condition in which the immune system responds abnormally to a protein called gluten , and leads to many gastrointestinal and systemic effects . There are four categories of celiac disease : (classical, atypical, silent and latent) . The diagnosis of celiac disease is established by a combination of the history , physical examination , serological tests , upper endoscopy results and multiple biopsies of the duodenum . This research is designed to study the correlation between the titres of Anti TTg IgA and between the severity of histological changes in the biopsy , and to study the correlation between the severity of clinical manifestations and between the degree of villous atrophy . The study included the adult patients who presented to Al-Assad University Hospital and Tishreen University Hospital during the period 2015- 2016 . We measured Anti tTG IgA titers . when the results were positive, patients went to upper endoscopy with duodenal biopsies . The diagnosis of celiac disease was made on the base of positive antibodies and the presence of duodenal biopsy of Marsh ≥ 2 . The results : 79 patients had positive IgA Anti tTG , and they had duodenal biopsies , the diagnosis of celiac disease was made in 71 of them . The celiac disease was found in % 89.873 of the study group . We found no correlation between the titers of Anti TTg IgA and between sex or age. The clinical manifestations varied , iron deficiency anemia was the most common (%49.3) and abdominal pain (%39.4) . Also, we found no correlation between the titers of Anti tTG IgA and between the severity of clinical manifestations or laboratory results . There was no correlation between the degree of histological damage and between the severity of clinical manifestations . We noticed that histological injury had progressed whenever the titers of Anti tTG IgA had raised . We were able to determine the titer of Anti tTG IgA in which it was diagnostic for celiac disease without the need for duodenal biopsies with sensitivity of 80.3% and specificity equivalent to 100% and this titer was : (the upper limit of the laboratory's normal serum value multiplied by 11.35). We have reached that mild enteropathy in celiac disease is a serious problem that requires strict adherence to a free gluten diet in order to prevent from the complications of the disease .

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