Reliance on Serum Endomysial Antibody Testing Underestimates the True Prevalence of Coeliac Disease by One Fifth

BACKGROUND: Although IgA endomysial antibody (EmA) is currently the serologic test of choice in selecting suspected coeliac patients for duodenal biopsies, false-negative cases have been reported and may be more common than previous studies suggest. We assessed the sensitivity of EmA for patients wi... View More