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Pediatric and Adult Celiac Disease
A Clinically Oriented Perspective
Corazza
Editore
Elsevier
Anno
2024
Pagine
370
ISBN
9780443133596
155,00 €
DA SCONTARE
Pediatric and Adult Coeliac Disease: A Clinically Oriented Perspective provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and critical overview of coeliac disease, its complications, and related disorders. The book covers epidemiological, pathogenetic, diagnostic, and treatment issues, including pediatric and adult cases, with a broad and international view. This is the perfect reference for researchers dedicated to advancing the field of translational coeliac disease research as well as clinicians who are diagnosing and managing coeliac disease throughout all of its various stages.
1. Introduction and definitions
2. The dynamic epidemiology of coeliac disease
3. Gluten, gliadin, and toxic epitopes
4. Genetic predisposition
5. Relevance of environmental cofactors
6. Immunological mechanisms of lesions
7. Coeliac disease in paediatric patients
8. Coeliac disease in adult patients
9. Serology and screening in risk groups
10. Role of intestinal biopsy in childhood and adult coeliac disease
11. Potential coeliac disease
12. Chronic enteropathies with negative coeliac serology in adults
13. Gluten free diet, assessment of its adherence, and quality of life
14. Medical treatments and follow-up for clinical conditions associated to coeliac disease
15. Refractory coeliac disease and lymphomagenesis
16. Infectious and other oncological complications
17. Herpetiformis dermatitis 18: Non-coeliac gluten-related disorder
19. Normative framework and public health interventions for the protection of coeliac disease patients
20. The role of patient associations
21. Emerging putative therapeutic targets in coeliac disease
22. Future directions
