Celiac Disease

What Other Screening Tests Should be Administered to Celiac Disease Patients?
What Other Screening Tests Should be Administered to Celiac Disease Patients? 1024 575 Mary Bates, PhD

Eliminating some labs may reduce costs without impacting quality of patient care. Researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital found that several screening laboratory tests currently recommended for pediatric patients newly diagnosed with celiac disease are infrequently abnormal. In a new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics, they suggest a more streamlined approach to decrease the…

Exploring the Link Between Cystic Fibrosis and Celiac Disease
Exploring the Link Between Cystic Fibrosis and Celiac Disease 1024 575 Lauren Dembeck

Overlapping symptoms can cause delayed diagnosis of celiac disease in patients with cystic fibrosis. Physician scientists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have recently identified three cases of patients with cystic fibrosis, all of whom had the same genotype, were treated with the CFTR modulator, ivacaftor, and were diagnosed with celiac disease. This adds to a novel body…