Objectives: Mucosal injury in celiac disease (CD) patients can be patchy, and up to 12% of CD patients can have mucosal changes limited to the duodenal bulb. Hence, recent guidelines recommend obtaining bulb biopsies in addition to distal duodenum. This study aimed to describe a cohort of children with isolated bulb CD and assess the benefit of separating bulb biopsies.
Methods: A retrospective chart review between January 2011 and January 2022 at 2 medical centers was conducted. We included children with CD who underwent endoscopy with separated biopsies from the bulb and distal duodenum. A blinded pathologist performed Marsh-Oberhuber grading on selected cases.
Results: We identified 224 CD patients, of which 33 (15%) had histologically confirmed isolated bulb CD. Patients with isolated bulb CD were older at diagnosis (10 vs 8 years; P = 0.03). Median anti-tissue transglutaminase immunoglobulin A (TTG IgA) level was lower in isolate bulb CD (2.8 vs 16.7 times the upper limit of normal [ULN], P < 0.001). Almost 88% (29/33) of isolated bulb CD patients had an anti-TTG IgA value of less than 10 times the ULN. Time to anti-TTG IgA normalization (mean 14 months) was similar between the 2 groups. A pathologist review of diagnostic biopsies could not distinguish between the bulb and distal duodenum biopsies in approximately one-third of the reviewed samples.
Conclusions: Separating bulb from distal duodenum biopsies can be considered during CD diagnosis, particularly in children with anti-TTG IgA levels less than 10 times the ULN. Larger prospective cohorts are needed to decide whether isolated bulb CD is a unique cohort or an early stage of the conventional CD.
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