Villi are vulnerable to damage by diseases like celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Such damage can cause malabsorption which, in turn, can lead to malnutrition, vitamin ...

Since villi are damaged, the absorption of nutrients by them is also inhibited, leading to malnourishment and susceptibility to various diseases. Not many people know that celiac disease is ...

A healthy small intestine is lined with fingerlike projections, called villi, that absorb nutrients. In celiac disease, the immune system attacks the villi, causing them to flatten and become ...

ranging from zero (the villi are normal and the patient is unlikely to have the disease) to four (the villi are completely flattened). In research published today in the New England Journal of ...

The gold standard for celiac disease is detection of flat villi through an upper endoscopy biopsy of the small intestine. However, according to the classification proposed by Marsh in 1992 ...

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt and pose severe risks to their health.

which might feature very subtle changes in a person’s villi. Previous studies have found that pathologists disagree on celiac disease diagnoses in more than 1 in 5 cases. To try and improve ...

The gold standard for diagnosing celiac disease is via a biopsy ... are normal and the patient is unlikely to have the disease) to four (the villi are completely flattened). In research published ...

Celiac disease is associated with an increased risk ... That leads to a truncating of the villi lining the small intestine (called villous atrophy). This interferes with the absorption of ...

The gold standard for diagnosing celiac disease is via a biopsy ... are normal and the patient is unlikely to have the disease) to four (the villi are completely flattened). In research published ...

A machine learning algorithm was able to correctly identify in 97 cases out of 100 whether or not an individual had Celiac ... villi are normal and the patient is unlikely to have the disease ...