The study assessed whether compete healing of duodenal mucosa in celiac patients with persistent Marsh I-II lesion after 1 year of gluten free diet (GFD): * could be achieved by adoption of a diet based exclusively on naturally gluten free products, with the elimination of commercially available processed food (GCED, Gluten Contamination Elimination Diet); * may depend upon time of exposure to GFD. Investigators studied two cohorts of celiac patients, both on GFD, for at least one year: * cohort A: patients re-biopsied after three months on GCED; * cohort B: patients re-biopsied after a minimum of further two years on standard GFD.
See this in plain English?
AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.
Histologic classification
Timeframe: three months in cohort A, at least sixty months in cohort B