This prospective study in a large cohort of patients examined the use of calprotectin measurement in feces as a diagnostic test to identify clinically significant gastrointestinal findings in patients ...

Questions on fecal calprotectin's usefulness as a measure of intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) dominated the viewer chat after the opening session of Advances in Inflammatory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a prospective study, researchers enrolled 457 asymptomatic participants (mean age 61.4 years; 75% women) from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The AGA formulated 11 conditional recommendations to inform the use of biomarkers in the management of Crohn’s ...

The Diagnostics Advisory Committee discussed the focus of the evaluation and the evidence available for faecal calprotectin testing. It noted that evidence existed on faecal calprotectin testing in ...

Fecal calprotectin is a highly sensitive assay that measures inflammation present in the intestinal tract. Gastroenterologists are increasingly ordering fecal calprotectin to screen and monitor ...

Age, fecal calprotectin level, toxin B polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold, immunosuppression, sex, and creatinine levels were identified as independent risk factors for developing recurrent ...

I am still haunted by my initiation to Crohn disease. My late brother Andrew, who succumbed to the illness because of a confluence of complications at 29 years-old, first manifested symptoms as a ...

Scientists have developed a tool to measure the activity of a molecule linked to gut inflammation within faecal samples. The optical tool, known as a luminescent reporter, lights up when it detects ...