Meet the editors

Dr. Luis Rodrigo MD is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has been the Chief of the Gastroenterology Service at HUCA Hospital in Oviedo for more than 40 years. He obtained his PhD in 1975 and has developed a long teaching and research career. He has published a total of 575 scientific papers, 297 written in English and the rest in Spanish. Dr. Rodrigo has participated as main investigator in a total of 45 clinical

trials and has directed 40 doctoral theses. He has contributed actively to the formation of around 100 specialists in gastroenterology working in his hospital and other hospitals in Spain and abroad. He has written around 35 chapters in books on several subjects and has been the editor of 22 books in his specialty and related diseases.

Carlos Hernández-Lahoz, MD, PhD, studied High School Studies at the Institute of Logroño (Spain) from 1955 to 1961. He studied at the Medical School at Zaragoza (Spain) from 1962 to 1968 obtaining his Licensee Degree in Medicine. He was also a medical resident at the Hospital General de Asturias obtaining the title of neurologist in Oviedo (Spain) in 1972, a neurology consultant at the Hospital Central de Asturias (HUCA), Oviedo (Spain), from

1990 to 2014, and an associate professor of neurology at the Medical School, University of Oviedo (Spain), in 1990, giving theoretical and practical teaching to medical students for over 24 years, finishing in 2014. He has published a total of 125 articles and 20 chapters in books on neurology, some of them on the subject of neurogluten.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Diagnosis **21**

**Chapter 2 23**

Genetics **35**

**Chapter 3 37**

Pathogenesis and Autophagy **51**

**Chapter 4 53** The Emerging Role of the Autophagy Process in Children with Celiac Disease:

Complications **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

Genotype DQ2.5/DQ2.2 (2/2) and High Celiac Disease Risk Development

*by Mauro Bozzola, Federico Manai, Chiara Montalbano, Alberto Azzalin,* 

Introductory Chapter: Celiac Disease - An Overview

Challenges with Point-Of-Care Tests (POCT) for Celiac Disease

*by Luis Rodrigo and Carlos Hernandez-Lahoz*

*by Huan Wu, Michael Wallach and Olga Shimoni*

*by Yanna Karla de Medeiros Nóbrega*

Current Status and Research Perspectives

Complications of Celiac Disease

*by Rakhshinda Jabeen*

*Elena Bozzola, Alberto Villani and Sergio Comincini*

**Section 1**

Contents

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

**Section 5**
