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I have been gluten free for 3 weeks will this affect my endoscopy results?
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Maybe...: If you have celiac disease (gluten sensitive enteropathy) then the villi (finger-like cells) that line the intestine shorten when visualized under the microscope. Following a gluten free diet allows the villi cells to grow tall again and this could happen within a 3 week span making the diagnosis from endoscopy with biopsy more equivocal.
Answered 2/13/2013
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