Empiric 6-food elimination diet induced and maintained prolonged remission in patients with adult eosinophilic esophagitis: a prospective study on the food cause of the disease.
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...Retrospective analyses have shown that food-specific IgE serum measurements and SPTs were neither sensitive nor specific methods for predicting EoE food triggers in adult patients.(37,44) In addition to these 3 major dietary treatment options, other dietary interventions have proven effective in achieving histologic remission of EoE....
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...Available research has demonstrated that one or several different foods can be responsible for EoE(37,44,60) and, although data are still limited, it seems clear that continuous avoidance of foods that trigger EoE allows for a prolonged, drug-free remission of the disease.(44,61) Food-reintroduction protocols generally entail repeated endoscopies with biopsies, which are not always well accepted by patients and should be performed under sedation....
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...This list has been modified in subsequent studies to also include those foods with a positive SPT result(37,40) or according to regional allergy sensitization patterns.(44) The results for the 7 studies that evaluated an SFED were extremely homogeneous, with a combined efficacy rate of 72....
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