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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several technologies that measure the level of calprotectin in stool samples (faecal calprotectin) were evaluated, including fully quantitative laboratory-based tests, fully quantitative rapid tests ...

Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study suggests.

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 ...

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 ...