Authors: A. Albín 1; R. Bužga 1; J. Dvořáčková 2; V. Šmajstrla 3 Authors‘ workplace: Interní odd. nemocnice, Vítkovice, přednosta MUDr. J. Srovnal 2NZZ Cytologická a bioptická laboratoř, Ostrava-Zábřeh 3NZZ Bormed, Ostrava-Poruba 1 Published in: Prakt. Lék. 1999; (3): 151-153 Category:
Coeliac sprue is much more frequent than formerly assumed and many patients escapediagnosis for many years. The authors used as a baseline: 1. coeliac disease (gluten enteropathy)is frequently oligosymptomatic, asymptomatic or manifested in an atypical way, 2. it occursfrequently in the population, 3. even oligosymptomatic or asymptomatic patients benefit fromtreatment (i.e. adherence to a gluten-free diet), 4. coeliac disease can be suspected fromhistological examination of the duodenal mucosa (duodenoscopy is part of gastroscopy). Basedon these assumptions it is logical to make a biopsy of the duodenal mucosa during everygastroscopic examination whatever the indication.
Key words: coeliac disease - gluten enteropathy - histological diagnosis - endoscopic duodenalbiopsy.
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